The people you live with at college, those first roommates often are people you're still friends with the rest of your life.
As you get older, you want less from the world; you just want to experience it. Any barriers to feeling emotions get dismantled. And ordinary things become beautifully poetic.
Every day's a hustle.
We emphasize negativity and violence in the media because that's what grabs everybody's attention, but in the real world, it's mostly people being very cooperative and caring and connected and kind. That's the norm of human experience. And yet, what gets our attention is the very opposite.
I'd like to see people get sued if they wrote a bad review of my movie. If you can't say something nice, you shouldn't say anything at all.
As a little kid, you go where your parents drag you. You have no agency, no dominion.
Ulrik Ottinger was the most real and experimental of all the German New Wave directors. She was probably the most out-there, too. She's a fascinating artist in that world.
Trump has a lot less than he says he does.
Storytelling is powerful; film particularly. We can know a lot of things intellectually, but humans really live on storytelling. Primarily with ourselves; we're all stories of our own narrative.
I'm kind of an old theater guy, so I'm sort of attuned to it. Like, when I go to New York, I go to plays.
I admire people who can just brazenly go through the world.
Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.
I'm a huge Nagisa Oshima fan. He was one of the most radical Japanese directors to come up in the '60s.
My dad's chill. He's the guy who, you wreck the car, he says, 'Well, nobody was hurt. It's just some metal.'
Took me a long time to know I was a nobody from nowhere.
Some films really do take years to get going, but I'd say that most of the films I want to do are slightly smaller projects. Some could be sketches. They're not all oil paintings.
I try to avoid bad experiences.
Anything that confirms for me the transitory nature of reality isn't bad. It's a good lesson in human hubris.
I really do remember everything. I see people I haven't seen in 20 years, and I can talk with them about what we talked about outside the high school.
I look up and go, 'I'm living in the world I visualized a long time ago.' From making movies, to the Film Society, to just being in a film world. It's a life that I wanted to inhabit. I think everyone has the opportunity to do that in this world - it's just, are you gonna work for it, and how much does it mean to you?
