It's hard for a hit to be bad for your career.

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

I'm really influenced by so many different things.

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.

I know Charlie Kaufman really well, for instance. Charlie Kaufman starts a story, and he has no freaking idea where he's going. None. Zero. And he doesn't want to know, because there's a little bit of death in that.

Death, only, renders hope futile.

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.