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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "