Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

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.

Belief creates behaviors.

What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence?

This is just your unwritten life. You didn’t expect it, it just happened.

Reflection can be painful, but reflection can also be productive.

Be beautiful for yourself, Janie. And only if you want to. If a man is worthy of you, he’ll see more beauty in who you are than in what you look like.

I try to bring as much taste, smartness, quality, functionality, and aesthetic qualities to everyday clothes.

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.

A day of peace and sharing can lead to greater understanding and cooperation among political parties, faith groups, and people of different races and economic class.

When the sky is totally covered by the dark clouds, be strong enough to see the bright stars beyond them!