I want people to have a new way of looking at the world when they leave the theater.

I definitely find the technical aspects of post-production generally quite overwhelming.

I find that I always also manage to incorporate a simultaneous reflection on cinema history into my films.

Certainly my films are cinematically unusual, and quite contemplative in their pacing compared to conventional films, but I think overall they are quite engaging, accessible, and even funny.

I think the biggest misconception about experimental film in general is that it is always difficult and inaccessible.

While the creative aspects of my filmmaking style are challenging in their own ways, I have developed such confidence and passion over the years that it has become much easier.

My work is not for everyone, but I think if people give it a try, they may be surprised by how entertaining it is.

Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.

Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.

Before games, the smell of burgers wafts down from the stands.

We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

I'm very, very suspicious of anybody that finds a belief system that they feel can explain it all, for themselves or for anybody else.

Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.

Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.

An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.

If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.