"If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it."

“The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.”

Source : Angelus Silesius (1986). “Angelus Silesius: The Cherubinic Wanderer”

“An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?”

“The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.”

“So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.”

Source : "fun. Interview with Jack Antonoff". Interview with Courtney Kenfick, www.seventeen.com. March 6, 2012.

“You just have to hope that they'll grant you an interview.”

“What really surprised me was how strange my paintings are anyway. To me, it's like, "Let's paint some portraits and some objects. Don't make it weird, just make it dead straight," but it's still weird. I don't know why. I guess it's just the way I see things.”

“If you look closely at any face, you'll start to see that different areas of the flesh tones are tinged with four other colors - red, green, purple and yellow.”

“My films require that the spectator ask the big existential questions. If you're not interested of turning inwards for answers, my films won't fulfill their whole purpose.”