I like things that are never one way. Usually, emotionally, I make the films based on a type of energy. I try to work with things that are more diffi….

I see things in a specific way. All the films are different. There are specific characters and scenes and locations and ideas. There are colors I wan….

A lot of times you can write a scene with a specific song in mind, and then you lay it over the image, and it kills it. I can never figure out why ce….

Directing, to me, starts even before we get to the set. Directing is a fluid, an abstract thing. It's not done only purely in the moment. It's an ide….

Spaceman 3 was one of my favorite bands growing up, and Jason Spaceman is someone I got along well with. I always felt his music was like narcotic go….

For certain things, certain audiences, people will laugh. And in other places, there's dead silence. And I enjoy them both. You try to make films whe….

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….

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

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 ….

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 just wanted it to be American..

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..

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….

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

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 ….

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….

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….

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….

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. ….

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….

Gucci Mane is trap rap's Frank Sinatra..