To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one, ' said Aunt Hilda

All those years thinking I was saved and had said my yes to God, but was really living the no.

Daa-r'uu Wee-z'oo."-Ettie the Explorer

The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated; returned to the spirit.

The holy trifecta of directing and filmmaking is character emotion, camera movement and music. When you hit those three, that's magical. That's what I'm trying to do.

[...]there is no injustice in God. The injustice lies in Christians who possess the gospel and refuse to give their lives to making it known among those who haven't heard.

Like an athlete, [dance] is an everyday job. You have to stay in shape - unless you just want to loaf through a couple of hoofing routines. But that just didn't satisfy me.

Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.

Snot is running down his nose, greasy fingers, smearing shabby clothes.

Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters.