“There’s no one reality. I think that there are layers upon layers of realities, and that’s what we actually experience.”

“I’m not trying to capture a composition on tape, but it’s more like injecting a tape with sound.”

“The aim is to be the greatest rock band in the world. Maybe that in itself, that kind of belief, is kind of intimidating.”

“I think [my movies] are all fraught with a certain amount of ambiguity, which often leaves people unclear about when to laugh, whether to laugh, what kind of laughter is being evoked.”

“I just wanted to make an album without any compromise or regard for how it would be performed.”

“To stay in the room for a rRope show, you really had to want to be there.”

Revisiting the first half of an already amazing year of film

“To me, you get what you put into it. It’s like with any kind of church: If you have faith, then you’ll believe.”

“If this interview ended and we went and had a beer, you’d be telling us stuff, private stuff about yourself, just ‘cause that’s what we’re interested in.”