“it was actually mummified, skin and all – but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.”

That’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.

So my wife’s experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they’re doing.

I would have to say that looked like it hurt.

When someone tells us something we’re doing wrong on the boards, we try to respond, we try to be responsive to the fan boards, but yeah, I can’t read them.

I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder

Well, that was kind of fun, wasn’t it? I mean, I don’t see where this could go, because we pretty much did everything. But it was fun.”

And there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.

I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.

The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it’s been, what it’s been used for, and for how long.

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

I believe they know everything that I do and think, and they still love me

New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard.

The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!

Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell,

I find it’s too much for me to read endless critiques, even if we’re being well-defended, of exactly what we’re doing.

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.

Actually I don’t remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

I gave him a bunch of ideas and then Vincent helped guide me and develop this particular film. I enjoy that rapport to have somebody else help guide me in my choices for the next film.

This film [ Blue is the Warmest Color] actually is the result of me talking with my producer Vincent [Maraval].

You never know if you can actually do something against all odds until you actually do it.

Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end – I never do.

A lot of people can’t remember things because they weren’t actually there to begin with – they don’t take it all in.

Sometimes, love feels like a life or death situation. Losing true love is pretty much as bad as it gets, other than actually dying or losing good health. Most people know that. Most people can relate. It’s like the end of the world.