Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.

I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Find the connection between you and the universe

If you love to do something, what is stopping you from doing it? Make the time. Show your passion. Shine on.

The old adage of forgive and forget became a trudge through quicksand on a beach as high tide crashed onto the shore.

By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity

From an early age I knew very strongly the lust to kill.

Every time I make a movie, I'm prepared for it to become influential and career-defining - but I have no control over these things.

I come from a place where we're not that shy about our bodies.

I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.

Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.

The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that’s not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.