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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Negativity is the enemy of creativity. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top. "

" 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. "