My god is narrative filmmaking.

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.

Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was.

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it gets, something good will come along - something always comes out of that dark period.

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking

Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

Undeniable obsession of words that quickens my spirit.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

I always thought the best kind of sunglasses are the motorcycle helmets with the black plastic masks on them. That way, nobody can recognize the back of your head either.

Every breakup is an opportunity to do it right the next time.

People want to know more about me. They want to know who I am.

I've always been a bit wary of keyboards because there's an invisibility to it - you're not really hitting anything.

I want truth. I'm crying out to hear it. I need it like oxygen.

Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.

You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things.