I wish I could tell people what I'm directing next, but I can't.

If you're constantly moving, you can get in a monotony that's just as equally boring as sitting still for a long period of time.

I live in Florida and people are crazy here. And I say that lovingly.

Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.

I'd meet a new filmmaker that I'd always loved, and I'd think, "Great! I'm in the right place." It's a weird way to look at it, but I don't care as long as I'm able to make stuff that I want to make.

I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.

I sublet place to place with my fiancé. We don't really have a home. I haven't had a proper home for years.

I've never really dreamed of owning a home. I don't think you go into the arts and also dream of owning a home.

Those who found nothing on the plains will find nothing on the summits of mountains!

I think Paul Sarbanes and his wife Christine socialized with them [George and Heather Mitchell] more than I did, but we all hung out, or we saw each other in groups.

Style is engineering that gives you freedom.

This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you.

Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.

If the world does not shine brightly, even just the physical, sensual perception after meditation, you have not meditated. You have sat and thought of things that were not real.

Choosing the right mask helps you... We went through many masks. It was very particular leather that as soon as you smudged it, you had to get a new one. We went through about 55 masks.

Near the end of his life, Henri Matisse's preferred attire was evening wear, by which I mean pajamas.

For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.

Well, I'm really not supposed to speak to strangers, but we've met before.