Today with the Internet, I search for film and video archives online. It's an ever-growing moveable visual feast of delicacies from all around the world.

The idea of recontextualizing images from different eras to express larger ideas about modern times was very exciting to me. That archival aesthetic is the foundation of my filmmaking style.

You’re impossible.” I sighed. “And really weird. No wonder Jared likes you.”“Is that a good thing or not?”I shrugged. “You two have bittersweet panty-dropping connection.”“Gross.

[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them.

Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

Most of us have a "Do Not Disturb" sign around our necks.

The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious.

I think the jobs [at the top] are unbelievably difficult, and there is nothing easier than second-guessing people.

Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.

When the Fed decides that inflation is too high, they have the tools, and they've shown historically that they have the will, to bring it down. And, it might be painful.

The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.