The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

You see a woman on a screen and you reduce her to just a thing, a sex object.

Making checklists of things you're looking for in a person is the numero uno thing you can do to guarantee you'll be alone forever.

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me.

There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.