"I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life."

"Life doesn't just happen it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here."

"It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global."

"I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive relationship with the world and to engage in it. So hopefully in non-sentimental ways, I'm trying to make something that helps make me happy."

"In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival."

"I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced."

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

"Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent."