“We’ve instinctively begun integrating our own bodies and our own lives into the visual elements of 18+.”

“It’s about a victim of the patriarchy in the sense that she fell into this life that was not hers, but that society chose for her.”

“Many of the best songs are the simplest ways of saying something complex.”

“I like people who feel things strongly or not at all. I don’t like the middle ground very much.”

“Ultimately it’s way more important that I gather incredibly talented people to help me convey my message. There’s no way I could do this on my own.”

“We do have all the old jokes, but they’re on scraps of paper. You know how, if you stay at the Best Western, you get a little notepad by the side of the bed? We’ve got literally thousands of these types of scraps in old supermarket bags in a storage locker.”

“This music is about now, without being novelty, without being banal. It’s expression with no romanticism.”

Sun Araw makes a crystal den, Lescalleet makes a joke, Thurston makes nice with Tony Conrad

“It’s the movie of an anthill living in the womb of Angelina Jolie.”

“I like to reference nostalgic stuff because that’s what I grew up listening to. I try to make it into a present thing.”

“I met this guy in England who’s in a folk band now, and we were talking about how funny it is because he’s my age, and he was like, ‘All the folk guys I know started out as metalheads.’”

“This slim volume tells us enough of what we need to know to negotiate rock’s inscrutabilities, lies, half-remembered truths, cruelty, and sublimity.”

10 unforgettable films from TIFF 2014