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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool! "

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

" I like things to be orderly. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "