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" A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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 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. "

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

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

" I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. There's nobody like him. He's unique, and just... way out cool. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I like things to be orderly. "

" 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. "

" Negativity is the enemy of creativity. "

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

" 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 think that commercials can really ruin a song. You know that the person sold the song for a good deal of money, and that was the tradeoff. But, music and picture can marry in a beautiful way, and the reverse also. "

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

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

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

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

" I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I become very nervous when I go to a film because I worry so much about the director and it is hard for me to digest my popcorn. "

" 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. "

" 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. "