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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go. "

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

" 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. "

" I love the quality, feel and history of film. I love the pictures of the giant cameras and the way it was. "

" 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 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. "

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

" In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one. "

" It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else. "

" I like things to be orderly. "

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

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

" I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it. "

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

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

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