If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself.

Sometimes I just think of an image. Basically, I see an image in front of me. My eyes are open, but I visualize an image, very truthfully. It happened with all my movies the same way.

Making a movie is trying to capture moments of true reality.

Be sure it's your real self you're showing. Because it is your real self that needs to be loved.

I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.

Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.

I've always been told I have a giant placenta.

I dont see lines of force as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.

Being a father is an everyday challenge. It goes on and on.

Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side

Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.