There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

I'm not being analytical. I just create everything intuitively. If you're too analytical, what you're doing probably ends up being too specific.

Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.

Apparently there’s this kind of songbird that thinks it dies every time the sun goes down. In the morning, when it wakes up, it’s totally shocked to still be alive—so it sings this really beautiful song.

I don't think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the '60s who were huge influences, like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.