I just wanted it to be American..

A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then no….

Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding. His leaps were big. There was somethi….

Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that….

Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead..

Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting..

I have no desire for any type of introspection at all. I don't ever ask myself any questions. I don't want answers..

Gucci Mane is trap rap's Frank Sinatra..

The first time I hung out with [David Blaine], he took me to this condemned building, and it had a pizza oven and he crawled into the pizza oven and ….

What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters..

Often the biggest dreamers get hurt the most. They were pure in their insanity and in their isolation. They were living the dream amongst themselves ….

I've always been pulled toward people who can't seem to make anything fit. It's like a cinema of isolation, of loneliness. They go outside the system….

I've just always liked watching people dance. I can't explain it. It used to just make me laugh. Sometimes you can tell a lot about a person by the w….

I like working with family and friends and people I admire. All my movies are filled with family members of some capacity. I think it means more when….

I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a….

Editing is fun for me. That's where you make things happen. Filming a movie, I just try to set things up and see where it goes. Editing is a puzzle. ….

For me, making a movie is kind of like vomiting. Not that film is like vomit, but more like this mass of ideas and thoughts that you have and just ha….

I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directio….

After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth ca….

I've never been into alternative, hipster rap music..

I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense..