Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.

Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

I was so happy with my bow ties from the last kickstarted project that I'm back for more.

Explore often. Only when you will know how small you are and how big the world is.

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

All your beliefs, they're just that. They're nothing. They're how you were taught and raised. That doesn't make 'em real.

Liberalism doesn't speak to ideals. Radicalism does.

Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

It is such a comfort to drop the tangles of life into God's hands and leave them there.

He'd be better off shoveling snow.

Well, killing a man isn't clean and quick and simple. It's bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize that shooting somebody isn't just fun and games, maybe we'll get somewhere.

And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night.