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" 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. "

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" Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on. "

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

" See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of. "

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

" I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it's going to be over. It's not that way; it's so energetic. That's where all the energy and creativity is. "

" The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within. "

" 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. "

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

" Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I've really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those. "

" 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. "

" Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things. "

" If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience. "

" Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money. "

" I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath. "

" Negativity is the enemy of creativity. "

" The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to. "

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

" I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me. "

" There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments. "

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

" Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate. "

" 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 like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique. "

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

" Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life. "

" My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me. "

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

" 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 believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it. "

" A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting. "