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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist. "

" I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla. "

" An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "