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

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" 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. "

" Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Negativity is the enemy of creativity. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" A lot of music doesn't do one thing or another. It just doesn't do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It's such a wide range, and it's really interesting that we all love different things. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "