A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.

Who needs sports stardom when you can shoot fireballs from your fingertips?

It is absolutely essential to hang in there—especially when you feel most discouraged.

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe

Making a film, you're in a really dark tunnel and the only kind of illumination is the shared experience you're having with your fellow cast and director.

I've always been against trying to make a movie like another movie. That's lame. It's already been done, so why do it again?

At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.

Things are always harder than you think they're going to be.

It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems and how you deal with people.

Flowers are like the sweet babies of the nature; they make us to smile.

I think if you're going to show a true representation of any one life, it can't be about any one thing. I try to see more of a full picture, with the romance just a single part.