When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.

Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was.

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it gets, something good will come along - something always comes out of that dark period.

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking

Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate — it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.

One man's Mona Lisa is another man's velvet Elvis.

It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are getting hotter.

I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.

Children need systems that are inclusive and driven by them, systems that will enable them to respond to their feelings and needs at any time.

Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.

The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.

We cannot afford four more years of this misguided socialist policies from President Obama and his administration.

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch.