The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

As an artist, you are always striving toward an ultimate achievement but never seem to reach it. You shoot a film, and the result could have always been better. You try again, and fail once more. In some ways I find it enjoyable. You never lose sight of your goal. I don’t do my job to make money or to break box office records, I simply try things out. What would happen if I were to achieve perfection at some point? What would I do then?

My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.

The most important words in the English language are not 'I love you' but 'it's benign.'

When you write the script, you're home in a room by yourself, and you're writing, and there's no connection with the real performing world. So you get a lot of things wrong and make a lot of mistakes and make a lot of bad choices.

The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.

I can levitate birds. No one cares.