The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.

If we're all going to die, shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now?

The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.

As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.

Everything that you could think about in life, or experience, or be interested in, theoretically should be expressed or dealt with in cinema. But the way typical narratives are set up, there's no room for philosophy, because it's just digressive material. It's not advancing the plot, so there's no place for it. It's the kind of stuff you would cut out, and that you shouldn't have put in there to begin with.

The truth will only be told over a career.

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.