When we were kids, you picked up a little paper and put it on a stick; and when you waved it back and forth, you understood the power of air underneath the wings. In that way, a child begins to understand abstraction, poetry, metaphor, symbolism. You play with the materials you have and use your imagination to make them into something else. That what's so sad about having everything on a little screen - it's not physical and dimensional, and that seems backward.

I lived in Indonesia for four years and I understand trance and magic and where it comes from.

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

The idea that all violence in movies is okay simply because it happens is bull. Directors and writers have a responsibility.

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.