All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and discover what they think and feel.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab.

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.

My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.

I like to laze around. I think that's a huge part of creativity. You have to let your mind relax and then another part of your brain suddenly connects with the solution you're trying to find.

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.

Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.

I wear the word victim like a badge of honor — my own purple heart. I see what others do more than I see what I'm capable of.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

But if that's what you want to be, that's what you will be - as long as you study.

I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.

Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?

If you insist on asking me why I feel the way I do, I plan to take the Fifth Amendment.

Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.

Generosity is giving until it makes you uncomfortable.

Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter.

So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you give!