Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those sam…

Your average game show host on TV, for instance, doesn't believe himself to be banal. He actually thinks that he's quite interesting. And if you look at the vi…

The monsters act out our rage. They act on their worst impulses, which is appealing to a certain part of us. They get punished for it, but we've enjoyed the sp…

Filmmmaking encompasses everything, from tricking people into investing in it, to putting on the show, to trying to distill down to moments in time, and ape re…

When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

I cannot write anything that I understand too well. If I know what something means to me, if I have already come to the end of it as an experience, I can't wri…