To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well.

But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal.

We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed.

Insanity is the insistence on meaning.

We live in a hell of opinions.

Once you reach what is / inside it is outside.

Earth you know is round but seems flat. // You can't trust / your senses.

Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.

Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.

Though the body is itsgenesis, a poem is the vision of a processCarved in space, vision your poor eye's singlearmor against winter spring summer fall

drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnalround, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within       I am awakerepairing in dirt the frayed immaculate threadforced by being to watch the birth of suns

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Please — consider me a dream.

You can’t hang out with negative people and live a positive life. Run from them!

I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.

I know a lot of directors have a whole staff of people trying to find their next film for them. I always just end up writing mine.

Nothing is more beautiful than freedom of the body.

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

It's my duty to enlighten people.

A father, finding time for what is most important is the true marker of a successful person.

My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.