The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.
When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.
I'm very anti-religious because religion tends to disembody you.
See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow and the rhythm, the tumbling out of the words, is a betrayal, and it's a sin, Martin, it's a sin. " --Hank (Kerouac)to Martin (Ginsberg) in the film Naked Lunch
Your'e seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.
Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.
We [need to] stop treating each other like that, stop calling each other fat and stop with these unrealistic expectations for women. It's disappointing that the media keeps it alive and fuels that fire.
We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.
I always believe in living in the country, because that's where what I eat is what I can put back in the dirt.
What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.