I want to make these films that I think other people would be scared to do. I don't think anyone can go off and make a rock opera. I think it's a very specific niche.

I'm smart enough to realize that the world does not stop and change because I want it to.

I want to do things that are very outside of the box, and I want to do movies that no one else can do. If someone else can make the movie that I'm making, then I shouldn't do it.

Maybe this is extremely selfish of me, but I do things that I want to make and I don't really care about anyone else when I'm thinking about an idea.

You can say, "I don't believe in anything," but you do because you believe in nothing. That is your belief system.

I don't think people realizemilie-autumn-devils-carnivale that, once you turn your director's cut in, it's no longer yours.

Religion and nationalism? I defecate on the altar of religious conviction, and wipe my arse on the flag of national pride.

following a process is being programmed, living is doing it in other way.

The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.

Food plays a large part in our weekend, but on a Friday evening, I'll make us something simple for tea. I might have a wee glass of wine.

Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than any of your teachers ever were.

Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

This whole universe is but a drop of His Beauty!

Put First Things First! These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by every executive and by every employee.

There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable.