I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.

Art is a sense of magic.

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?

What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.

There are a lot of movies made for nobody.

If only, then, I had been more living out of the present--such a beautiful word...present. The sense of it being, now to me, more beautiful than 'to look forward.

The way you live your day is a sentence in the story of your life. Each day you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.

I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I'm a happy guy. It's such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for life. Always, always, always.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

When you laugh at the world, the world dissolves.

All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.

The older we become, the more important it is to use what we know rather than learn more.

The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.

There is equality in the office but not on the street.

Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes.

The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.