We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

You can't legislate sobriety.

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. And it'll be to change the color of an actor's tie or change the little smirky thing he's doing with his mouth. Or you can put in more clouds or move the tree a little bit.

All artists are anarchists in some way - some more extreme than others, but it's something that I think artists are supposed to do. We're supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is [art] as much as poetry, in my opinion.