My dad taught me at a very young age that I should work harder than everyone else: Be the first one in and the last one out.

I'm a very visual person and I love the ability to tell stories through images.

I find I am most productive with at least six hours of sleep.

Don't be entitled - earn your success.

If you judge art be its cover, you efface the very essence of it

The beauty of one's life would never seize to fade away the moment hate settles in one's heart.

The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger.

Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next

I don't want to play a laptop live if I'm just going to sit there, so it's also a problem of working at my movie theater job long enough to get money to get better equipment.

The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.

If you always win, then you're probably doing something wrong.

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.