My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.

Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

Mapmaker mapmakermake me a mapone to one scale, without a single gap.Map every rock, every thought, every treeand erase all the territory.

It's not easy to kill a mountain goat. He thinks with his spine.

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.

Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

I am going to die someday and I know where I am going.

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

It occurred to me at some point that what really links us to the past is memory, and there's so much we've forgotten.