It is a miracle that anything gets made. It's not for the faint of heart, at all. You could so easily get really depressed or really down about the whole thing, but you just don't.

I graduated from high school with the art award and I had made a ton of short films, but it was before DVDs with director commentary.

I'm a control freak, so that's why I became a director.

A giver's purse can never be paused.

Being clingy may work for puppies, but not for you.

No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.

I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite.

Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes.

My message is to forget about dichotomies. The Brain Opera is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual way. It is a psychological journey with voices - so I do consider it an opera.