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.

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

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.

Love should not be polluted with friendship.

Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.

Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.

You can only be really happy when you become what you really are.

Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."

In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

Pardon me while I lower my voice.