The only thing I can ever do is make a film that I can respond to. I could not make a romantic comedy for college girls. I wouldn't know how that works.

Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws.

Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.

Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored.

I have a really, really hard time sitting down and watching a TV show, except I'm apparently willing to watch the same episode of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' like, seven times.

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can take place.

Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to do with what's at the heart of a film.

Figure out the WHY you want it and turn it into a desire and then and obsession!

His name is Tyson? I hate to break it to you, but you dated a brand of chicken.

Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag -if they do, they must be consequences -perhaps loss of citizenship or year in a jail.

Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.

It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets.

the time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre

Most institutional investors feel compelled to swing at almost every pitch and forgo batting selectivity for frequency.

God does not call those who are equipped, He equips those whom He has called.

Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.

It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.