"Reading this book is like walking around with the neurons of someone else’s brain. It’s a not so brief look at the world as seen from inside of the multifaceted mind of a brilliant man."

"I love Bringing Up Baby. Anything that Katharine Hepburn’s in. I’m committed to the Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn era of filmmaking. The African Queen is influencing me on Chaos Walking, which I’m shooting right now."

"I watch everything she does. I read everything she writes. My favorite artist walking the planet. Watch her Notes from the Field on HBO. Pick up her inspiring letters to a young artist immediately afterward. She never disappoints."

"I'm the world's biggest Damien Dempsey fan, but every night he kept saying exactly the same things onstage, so one night I met him walking offstage and jumped on his back. He enjoyed that... and... so did I .."

"This is one of my favorite films. The way that Louis Malle shoots Jeanne Moreau—those are some of the most beautiful walking scenes I’ve seen. She’s walking in the rain with her head held high, lost in herself, mumbling, and with that amazing score being played by Miles Davis. There is something so modern about the film, and it feels like it opens so many doors. When I was making A Fantastic Woman, I was trying to get a little bit closer to the elegant approach that Malle used to capture Moreau’s presence."

"Another film that induced lengthy walking after the first screening. The intensity of the colors, the palpability of the textures – of the earth, of the costumes, of the light – my eyes felt as though they were seeing for the first time."