I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and discover what they think and feel.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab.

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.

My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.

I like to laze around. I think that's a huge part of creativity. You have to let your mind relax and then another part of your brain suddenly connects with the solution you're trying to find.

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.

Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.

When he can render no further aid, the physician alone can mourn as a man with his incurable patient. This is the physician's sad lot.

The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.

They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter.

You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.

The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are.