We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.

It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.

As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.

Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.

Art is all in the details.

I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.

It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

I've never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat 'The Clock' like a puzzle and force the pieces to fit together in odd ways.

The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.

You start with an idea but then so many things can happen.

If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.

Our ancestors sought knowledge, but we, their descendants, glorify ignorance.

Couldn't I just take up juggling fire over a pit of alligators?" Liam muttered. "I think it might be easier.

It's a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.

... I am dark but fair, / Black but fair.

Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise.

People can't figure me out; they can't process me. I don't expect them to. You can't process me with a normal brain.

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

I want to be a good person, and a person that people enjoy working with, 'cause I certainly enjoy working with other people.