The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.

Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can’t have. And then about what you receive and misuse.

I guess they needed a maze in Japan, where everything's neat and tidy. In America everybody's already wandering around lost.

As I get older I find that the friendships that are the most certain, ultimately, are the ones where you and the other person have made substantial amounts of money for one another.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

There were days when no kid came out of his house without looking around. The week after Halloween had a quality both hungover and ominous, the light pitched, the sky smashed against the rooftops.