I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are in some way love letters to the silent era.

I like being able to do anything. I think that's healthy, doing anything and everything, rather than just getting completely obsessed with one particular genre or particular kind of work.

The filmmakers I really love are the ones that let me look through their eyes for a while. They have an aesthetic and social point of view.

Pride in what and who you are is a strong foundation, but don't be defined by your oppression; use your anger, don't let it use you.

Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

I don't want to get pigeonholed just doing just family films and fantasy films... I don't really want to get pigeonholed just doing anything in particular.

Oh, sheep. I've lost all my sobbing colours.

The sky is so tragically beautiful. A graveyard of stars.

The soul-Self doesn't follow the crowd. It encourages you to speak up when you need to and live by your truth.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them.

There are going to be moments today you don't like me. You'll get over it.

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour.

It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire, and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze. The day on which you are without passionate love is the most wasted day of your life.

I work when I feel like I can do something that pleases me, that I think I can give a little more than I've given up to yesterday.

Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.