from the day you left I should've seen that life wasn't all its cracked up to be

Let us be kind. It is the simplest way to touch someone's heart.

Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.

From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.

There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

The interior life is often stupid.

For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it.

Don't buy into the corporate mythology that's been rammed down our throats for all these years.

In some Arab art exhibitions that have happened, there's always this idea that the East is more traditional; they show a lot of works on calligraphy and religion.

I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.

What we need is to use what we have.