If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere.