It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global.

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

It is a sound like loneliness—enough to let you know you’re there, but not enough to fill you with life.

I Didn't Ask to Be a Senior Citizen (I Was Drafted)

I am definitely as happy as I've ever been. Happier, I would say, than I've ever been.

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else.

In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.

My step-dad is probably the greatest man I've ever known. The best advice I've ever been given was when he told me to enjoy my life because one day I'm not going to be as agile as I am now.

Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.

No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

The fundamentals of the game are the same wherever you go: pass, dribble, shoot, defend, rebound, screen, play hard and together