When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

I'm very interested in variations.

No mistakes can be make during rehearsals, only progress toward what works best.

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

Music just gives me so much energy and inspiration. Music and literature in a way probably influence me more than cinema does because they're different forms and yet related. I probably know as much about music history as I do about the history of cinema.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.