"Before the 90s, black metal wasn't a selling tool [and didn't] have money behind it. Then it became a pop sensation. Now that the record industry has collapsed and started to rot, things are livening up a bit again."

“Repetition creates the master.”

“Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.”

“Maybe a story will cheer you up... Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The End.”

“There are genres I don't care for, and I've never worked in those genres, and then sometimes there are people that I haven't liked and I haven't worked for those people. But if I feel like there's a movie that I would like to go see, I'll jump into it.”

“Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go!”

“I'm really impotent against the overwhelming bleakness of the universe and the only thing I can do is my little gift [filmmaking] and do it the best I can, which is cold comfort.”

“When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift.”