The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.

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.

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.

Probably looking at a piece of paper and all the features of a minivan, the minivan is probably the best car in the world.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Few know the use of life before 'tis past.

Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.

Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing.

There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots; you have got to go the regular turnpike road.