Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.

It has to be very tight to seem loose.

I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I was going to be the weird, avant-garde guy.

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 rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

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