Film is endlessly just beyond your reach. I think that's what I love so much about it.

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.

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.

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.

The boomerang is Australia's chief export (and then import).

​It is not enough to write and deliver a funeral service for a grieving family…you must love them too.

Are you ready to get BOLD?

My dream is to save women from nature.

Time, the ultimate arbiter of what is of value in life.

Saying that I've THOUGHT about it doesn't mean that I'm DOING it.

The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for life to begin.

Nobody stays in the world that you've seen them in before.

An uniformity of weights and measures, arranged upon mathematical principles, would be a benefit to the whole commercial world, if it were wise enough to adopt such an expedient.

Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.