The genome is a map of our evolutionary travels.

The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

The most necessary, the most important, the principal, the most essential thing for a musician is this: to know what he wants, what he can do, and what he ought to do.

"Every film is a documentary of its own making."

Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.