I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws.

Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.

Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored.

I have a really, really hard time sitting down and watching a TV show, except I'm apparently willing to watch the same episode of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' like, seven times.

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can take place.

Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to do with what's at the heart of a film.

I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

Water doesn't know where it's going to flow, it just flows.

Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.

Nobody likes the phenomenon of death, and death hates the phenomenon of life

Getting loved by yourself is the best thing that can happen to you. After all your heart is a part of you. Before being someone else's.

My husband managed to cram four years of college into five.

I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Aside from mastery in the fine arts, success in learning anything is the result of genuine interest and amount of energy dedicated to it.

At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.

If we but give it time, a work of art 'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us - all our molecules - to make us whole again.