If you pretend you're completely mad, people believe it. The only thing I wanted when making the film was to have fun.

I love the idea of making drawings and seeing them become real. It's really like heaven to be able to draw something and then see it as a reality, even strange moments such as fire.

The soul is the weariest part of the body.

A great many things keep happening, some good, some bad.

Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question.

I remember reading Paul Fussell my first year teaching at U of Hawai'i and being like, oh, it has a turn! Why didn't anyone tell me?

To the man on crutches, dressed in camouflage, who stole my wallet ... you can hide but you can't run.

After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby].

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism