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.

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

It's always really scary to release new work.

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

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 truth had been said but evil had been done.

The vampire's eyes were open, and he was staring at her intently. It was as though he were trying to speak to her with simply the power of a glare.Alexia did not speak glare-ish.

Greed like the love of comfort is a kind of fear.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.

When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought

The first thing you see when you walk into a store is color.

Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.

I was baptized into Christ. I died when He died. Sin’s power over me has been broken, in Jesus’ name!

A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.