If I were really, truly in love with someone who was truly in love with me, then I would get married, but that would be the only reason I'd get married.

Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart. And now my soul was crying.

There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me.

I feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong.

Somewhere along the way we all go a bit mad. So burn, let go and dive into the horror, because maybe it’s the chaos which helps us find where we belong.

We must be true ambassadors of Christ on the earth in order to be able to put an end to the plague of ignorance in our society.

And I think, if thoughts are worth a penny, how much less promises must be worth. Especially the ones you're likely to break.

I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.

Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.

I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.

Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of old nova coughings vivifies the redness of our blood.

I think we have such a crown jewel in the forgiveness of God, and it changes people's lives.

It's strange - some directors are really talented but they can be so precious when it comes to letting you be a part of it.

Live the Dream, Dream the Fish