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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. "

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" Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. "

" Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs. "

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

" 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. "

" Negativity is the enemy of creativity. "

" 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. "

" The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within. "

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

" I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it's going to be over. It's not that way; it's so energetic. That's where all the energy and creativity is. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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