"Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it i…"

"I grew up on the experimental cinema coming out of New York and San Francisco in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s."

"Elephant, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes last year, is Van Sant's masterpiece."

"I've stayed in touch with Gus over the years, and there have been a couple of things that were looked at, but never q…"

"It was such a privilege to work with Gus — a true luxury for me, as watching ‘My Own Private Idaho’ almost 30 years a…"

"Yeah, that story’s not finished. We have more things written already and figured out for it to finish, but somebody’s…"

"The kids’ business of animation is pretty much gone at this point, but adult animation has been steadily rising for t…"

"When my career dies, and I can’t sell a project or do anything else, that’s when [Dexter’s Laboratory] will return to…"

"All the thought which in the course of my studies I have been able to give to the subject has led me to conclude that…"

"In the dry places, men begin to dream. Where the rivers run sand, there is something in man that begins to flow. West…"