The people who say they're for democracy want nothing to do with democracy.

All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There’s no escaping the inevitable.

The minute you realize that your options are unlimited, things just start falling into place all around you.

I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can. You can push it through, and you can hire the right people.

In the United States, we can talk about ISIS, but we can't talk about Palestine.

I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants to explore the darkness. He wrote a great story called 'The Imp of the Perverse' about the instinct towards self-destruction. Poe is the godfather of Goth literature and that whole movement.