I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on 'The Fountain'. Although I do like the process, I think my favorite part of filmmaking is the actors.

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.

Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was.

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it gets, something good will come along - something always comes out of that dark period.

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking

Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

For the good that I would: I do not, but the evil which I would not, I do.

I'm not going to have a husband anyway, " said Laura. "I'm going to live by myself in the garage.

There's not too many rich black people in this world.

Both worry and stress reek of arrogance.

In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.

The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.

I'm a big baby. I'm not tough at all.