Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.

We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.

It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.

As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.

Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.

Art is all in the details.

I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.

It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

I've never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat 'The Clock' like a puzzle and force the pieces to fit together in odd ways.

The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.

You start with an idea but then so many things can happen.

Who wanted to make lemonade from lemons, when you could make perfectly good lemonade grenades?

He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto ...

Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.

You’re a loner in body, mind, and soul. A writer who spends a day of solitude in the office is plagued by a mind that travels with the body. The work never stops.

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

Never treat somebody’s cleverness as his life’s smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness.

Reserved as he [Confucius] was about the supernatural, he was not without it; somewhere in the universe there was a power that was on the side of right.

If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.

If it's good, it's mine. If it's bad, it's a fake.