I'm not being analytical. I just create everything intuitively. If you're too analytical, what you're doing probably ends up being too specific.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.

When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

The flowers are ravined by bees, the fruit blossoms are thrown to the ground, the wind the rain forces everything.

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

I definitely want to go out and explore different personalities and different people.

If you can see yourself more than just a victim, aha, now you've got the place to move into that is much more vital and creative and is resourceful than being a victim.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

The Indians' botanical knowledge is disappearing even faster than the plants themselves.

If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.

People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.