Some people get therapy, some people get to make movies.

Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

I've always been more comfortable making my decisions from the subconscious level, or more emotionally, because I find it is more truthful to me; Intellectually, I don't think like that because I get uncomfortable.

That's what I always loved about [Federico] Fellini's films: You see the weird joy of the weird filmmaking family and the abstract craziness that goes along with it, and there's something about it that's quite beautiful.

My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.

I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.