The Boy With Nails In His Eyes

There Was One Moment, And It Happened In School. I Had A Big Final Exam - We Were Supposed To Write A 20-page Report On This Book About Houdini. I Probably Would Have Loved Reading It, But I Didn't, So I Just Decided To Make A Little Super-8 Movie Based On It. I Tied Myself To The Railroad Tracks And All That. I Mean, This Is Kid Stuff, But It Impressed The Teacher, And I Got An A. And That Was Maybe My First Turning Point, When I Said, 'yeah, I Wouldn't Mind Being A Filmmaker.'

Everything In This Room Is Edible. Even I'm Edible. But, That Would Be Called Canibalism. It Is Looked Down Upon In Most Societies.

Things That I Grew Up With Stay With Me. You Start A Certain Way, And Then You Spend Your Whole Life Trying To Find A Certain Simplicity That You Had. It's Less About Staying In Childhood Than Keeping A Certain Spirit Of Seeing Things In A Different Way.

I've Always Been Misrepresented. You Know, I Could Dress In A Clown Costume And Laugh With The Happy People But They'd Still Say I'm A Dark Personality.

Anybody With Artistic Ambitions Is Always Trying To Reconnect With The Way They Saw Things As A Child.