Writing is really freeing because it's the only part of the process where it's just you and the characters and you are by yourself in a room and you can just hash it out. There are no limitations.

I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about each piece of it.

I love the freedom of writing and then I love the realization of directing. I can't favor one or the other. I enjoy both parts of the process.

Once your film is done, you can't explain to people what something was supposed to be. You can't give them footnotes. It all has to be there.

In New York there's a lot of interstitial spaces; spaces in between spaces, where you're changing, and New York gives you the anonymity to be who you want to be.

We should gather all the good and true principles in the world and treasure them up, or we shall not come out true Mormons.

art is a mode of stalking

Apparently the rarest commodities on earth are truth and honesty.

There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a way.

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be.

Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.

Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger