It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's alw….

Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for..

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life..

I'm an atheist. But I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God. We celebrate pretty much every religion in our f….

It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me s….

There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?.

I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms ….

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be very cultural, but it's not acceptable..

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books..

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem..

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships..

In the end, winning is sleeping better..

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age..

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from..

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse..

When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people who sat on t….

There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. And wouldn't you know that your path was th….

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize..

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of t….

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of..

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes..