Technology sounds quick and easy, but it ends up taking up too much of your time.

I don't like speed. I would have made a terrible Futurist. Even when I did take drugs, I never liked amphetamines and much preferred the slow taffy-pull of time that you get with opiates.

I tend to like poems that are short as well as funny. I love Joe Brainard and Aram Saroyan. And I think their sense of humor and minimalist approach are pretty radical.

In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there.

I like to look at the interface between words and pictures and wonder about which comes first, a sort of chicken-or-egg type of question.

The earth has always supported me in all my endeavors. I trust it.

I tend to be a pretty spacey and scattered person, so anything that makes me feel "grounded" comes as a welcome relief.

I think the more stability a person has, the more they can follow esoteric or intellectual pursuits.

The inner and outer, the visible and invisible, the abstract and concrete - you've got to get the balance right (not that I do, but it's something to aim for).

Sometimes you get lit students that know a lot about the canon but virtually nothing about contemporary poetry and vice versa. I like to mix things up.

When I shut off the verbal, I like to escape into the visual.

My swimming cap was really sprouting leaks these days. The thing is, you could patch over the holes, but it would never be the same. Like my love life.

I've always been against trying to make a movie like another movie. That's lame. It's already been done, so why do it again?

I've always been old at heart.

Look at the world around you & imagine it in a better way.

There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.

Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

If you don't love Jesus-go to hell!

I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter or anybody else's wife.

I'll be a YouTuber for as long as I love it.

You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.