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" An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well. "

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" Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things. "

" A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene. "

" Negativity is the enemy of creativity. "

" More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't. "

" To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times. "

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

" A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically. "

" 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. "

" Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle. "

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

" Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too. "

" Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day. "

" I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. There's nobody like him. He's unique, and just... way out cool. "

" Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music. "

" I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool! "

" Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there. "

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

" 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. "

" To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words. "

" Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits. "

" Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way. "

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

" The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead. "

" I think part of the reason ideas haven't come in is that the world of cinema is changing so drastically, and in a weird way, feature films I think have become cheap. Everything is kind of throwaway. It's experienced and then forgotten. "

" I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues. "