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

I'm thrilled by the fact that I made something out of nothing. There it is! It wasn't there before: there it is - I made it! That's pretty powerful, and that's the power that Buddhists give to every single person.

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.

My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.

My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.

Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.