A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it

Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.

I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go.

I'm less interested in skin than in fascia -- connective tissue.

Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body

A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.

There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

If you are in doubt about what's balanced, look to the natural world. Animals know the right paths.

You are always surrounded by wonder, whether you realise this or not.

You have to have an emotional investment in what you're doing. If you don't love what you're doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.

I was never without a book in my hand.

It is as important to monitor your mind constantly as it is to sit down and practice meditation.

Get the hell out of Palestine.

Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.