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" Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is, even though the paintings might take some time to make, with cinema you are booked for a year and a half, minimum. "

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

" I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People think in Hollywood there's a family, where everybody gets together talks about stuff and we all know each other, and it's just not that way at all to me. "

" 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. "

" Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema. "