Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these artifacts that are taken out of context and how we're forced to view them as objects, as relics, as sculpture- static. But what's interesting is what it allows me to do in my head in terms of imagining what the possibilities are or imagining the role in which they played within a particular culture which I'm fascinated by.

A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer.

The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness.

Anything that I'm doing I'm writing specifically for a particular project.

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

The singing tells everybody what to do musically.