I love riding on a bus now because you're looking down on the world from not too high of an angle, but people on the street rarely look up into the bus. They're sort of oblivious to this big giant machine, you know, passing by. So there's something very beautiful about the angle that you look at the world through.

America was built on an attempted genocide, anyway. Guns were completely necessary.

I'm not into killing living things, you know, but I'll always have guns.

I'm not putting down anyone that does look at their work in that way, but for me I am a hardcore amateur.

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'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.