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" 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. "

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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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "