I pretty much believe that a film is a film and when an audience watches a film, they finish it.

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

When we are called before God and His throne of judgment, it will be too late to reverse our decision. It is during our lifetime here on earth that we decide our eternal destiny.

Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility.

I think politicians and comedians have a lot in common. One is a group of approval-seeking narcissists who will say and do anything to be liked... and comedians are always talking about politics.

I also have a routine with breathing and visualization techniques that I go through when I feel overwhelmed or nervous.

I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.

I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.

There is a future, and I can't wait to get to it

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honestly, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot.

If you can't see the bright side, why ya just need to polish the dull one.