I mostly like documentaries, so I always think things that happened in real life are so astounding that why would you make a movie about something fake.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.

Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy.

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'

The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.

I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids.

I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.

No salesman can ever guarantee you a grant from any government or non-profit organization.

The questions people have are sometimes soulful, sometimes zany, sometimes incoherent. I want to make a 'zine with just the questions I get emailed to me.

The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

Before there was an Internet, before there was an AOL, the circulation of newspapers was going down.

...the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.

Greatness in art is always a by-product.

The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth?

As you get older, you have more time on your hands. Some people do croswords and others jigsaws, but I garden.

I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.