It's always really scary to release new work.

With photography, I like to leave a lot of the story, even to myself.

I think that's one of the reasons it's nice to leave out a lot; it can become a lot more personal to people if there is room for them to put their own experiential time track on it.

When I'm shooting in other cities, I'm just trying to make it look like California.

I never plan anything in an analytical way before I shoot, but when I look back there seems to be kind of a primary color palette.

I can't even imagine what it is like to make a movie that lasts two hours.

I am looking for the disconnected connection

I never thought about the green, but LA has a lot of greenery.

It's hard for me to approach [a film] as a still image now that I know exactly what it takes to make a movie. I mean, I know what it takes to make a movie that lasts five minutes.

I lived in London for small amounts of time, and in Florida and New York.

I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.

The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.

There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.

I am dwelling on things I love, even if a measure of tragedy is stitched into everything, if you follow the thread long enough

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.

There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped, I put on Mystikal.

I love being a father, it's wonderful. It's changed my life. All the clichés are true.

Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.

Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base.

Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?

To maintain your marriage brimming, with really like in the wedding cup, anytime you are incorrect, admit it each time you're proper, shut up.