Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

One of the smartest things one can do in life sometimes…is play stupid. Be encouraged

I was a huge Ann-Margret fan, and I wanted to be like her.

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.

[During the Renaissance] the Italians said, "We are one in the Father: we will go back." The Northern races said, "We are one in Christ, we will go on.

So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

Don't worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

Sometimes if something scares me, I lean right into it . I’m not a brave person— I’m more of a fearless idiot.

Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.

Once the voices are in your head, it's either make a movie or kill a lot of people.