It's a sad and beautiful world.

The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them, and I think it is very important to embrace things that interest you and influence you, and incorporate them into what you do, as all artists have always done. The ones that say they don’t, are lying. Or are afraid that their work won’t be seen as being original, somehow.

I like marginal characters, I like real people. I learn more from talking to my plumber when he comes to fix my toilet than I do from meeting a movie star. I think my movies are in the same vein as that.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy.

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.