I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.

Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead.

After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.

For certain things, certain audiences, people will laugh. And in other places, there's dead silence. And I enjoy them both. You try to make films where it's never one way - like life.

I have no desire for any type of introspection at all. I don't ever ask myself any questions. I don't want answers.

A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.

Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

Gucci Mane is trap rap's Frank Sinatra.

What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way.

I like working with family and friends and people I admire. All my movies are filled with family members of some capacity. I think it means more when you have a personal relationship with someone.

I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

Those who live without a great fire in their soul live in darkness.

Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.

When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.

The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions.

If we can cultivate a concern for others, keeping in mind the oneness of humanity, we can build a more compassionate world.

The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.

I've never turned my back on country music.

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.