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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I like things to be orderly. "

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

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

" I like L.A. because of the light. The light makes me feel so good. It's really beautiful. And there's something about L.A. being so spread out that gives you a feeling of freedom. Light and freedom. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Negativity is the enemy of creativity. "