Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

Technology today is the campfire around which we tell our stories. There's this attraction to light and to this kind of power, which is both warm and destructive. We're especially drawn to the power. Many of the images of technology are about making us more powerful, extending what we can do. Unfortunately, 95 percent of this is hype, because I think we're powerful without it.

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody's right and nobody's wrong.

I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.

Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.