I'm an individual, and I have opinions.

There's beauty in people who reinvent themselves. Actors live a thousand lives, as do hackers ... the personality can play around forever.

I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist. You give Terrence Malick a movie like Transformers, and he's f***ed. There's no way for him to exist in that world... Lars Von Trier's dangerous. He scares me. And I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.

You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.

Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

It's good filmmaking when you don't have to say anything and you can still tell the story.