I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell 'action' and 'cut.'

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.

I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.

I think that taking night trains or meeting someone on the road is pretty romantic. I've done a couple of things like that. I've surprised someone in Paris. And hopefully, when you surprise someone, they're happy to see you.

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

In the future, there is no future.