First of all, you make a movie that you want to see and then you just hope for the best.

Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.

I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

It's very nice to have someone that you can have a completely abstract conversation with and leave the room, feel like everything's fine, and then realize that if you pick it apart, you have absolutely no idea what either of you said.

Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

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.

I don't have a dog, because I travel too much. I don't want to just leave it abandoned.