I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.

You make a film and you can't really pick the way it's put to the public. You control the content, but the way it's marketed, or the poster, or what they're telling the public about the film, it's beyond you. Some people don't even see them, because they think they already know it. That can be frustrating, when something you've done is marketed in a way you think is antithetical to what it is.

I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.

In a sea of stories, find the right one to tell, and the right way to tell it.

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

I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.