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" A lot of music doesn't do one thing or another. It just doesn't do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It's such a wide range, and it's really interesting that we all love different things. "

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" I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal. "

" Everyone is on the internet but they're not all talking with each other. There are groups upon groups out there, but they don't talk to one another. So while the internet brings everyone into a shared space, it does not necessarily bring them together. "

" The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea. "

" Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace. "

" Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen. "

" I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much. "

" Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs. "

" I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry. "

" As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them. "

" A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it. "

" I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out. "

" What I really like is to be at home, working. "

" I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much. "

" Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces. "

" The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience. "

" This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top. "

" I love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I hate. There's a couple, and I don't even know exactly why I don't like them. "

" I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all. "

" I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla. "

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" I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I become very nervous when I go to a film because I worry so much about the director and it is hard for me to digest my popcorn. "

" Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound. "

" I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then. "

" The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood. "

" If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process. "

" You don't need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere. "

" I don't paint the town red. But when I do go out, people always want to touch my hair. It happens every time. "

" I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist. "

" I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature. "

" Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all. "