L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

The holy faith is the strong force.

Memories are who we are, Tul. In the end, that’s all the luggage you take with you. Love and memories are what last.

I know no such disease of the soul, but ignorance.

Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, "Man Gets Married!"

the urgent crowds out the essential.

I believe the power of Economics is to help provide a unique lens for looking at the world.

It takes four private-sector jobs to support every public-sector employee.

Listen to what children have to say-their windows to the soul are unclouded.

All I can tell everybody is, I'm the same guy, just on a different team.

Maybe I'm not the gloaming witches smart, but at least I'm not our stupid liffey hamburger mongrels