Follow your own weird.

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.