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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "