I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.

For me, the music is always like the small rowboat I get into at the very beginning of my process.

I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.

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

I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues.

Stupid f***ing white man.

Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?