I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation.

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.

A cynic always focuses on problems and not on possibilities.

The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.

There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

A great nose may be an index Of a great soul

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch us. Not accommodate us, make us comfortable.

This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.

It always seems crazy to tell people what to expect. That never works! So, I don't know what to say, other than that they can expect me.

Since my fried left me,I've got nothing to do but walking.I walk to forget.I walk,I escape,I get further.My friend will not come back,now I am a marathon man.

I'm someone who had a deep emotional attachment to 'Starsky and Hutch.'