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

Upon entering my vein, the drug would start a warm edge that would surge along until the brain consumed it in a gentle explosion.It began in the back of the neck and rose rapidly until I felt such pleasure that the world sympathizing took on a soft, lofty appeal.

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.

Everything's changing so fast that it's sometimes hard to keep up.

No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.

When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.

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.