You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.

The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.

When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

You can't write something to please someone.

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.

Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.

We can overcome division only by refusing to be divided.

It may be that we have all lived before and died and this is Hell.

A lot of what I do in my work is taking a thing and either washing it off, scraping it, covering it, scraping it and then washing it, turning it upside down. Making it somehow blind.

In the natural world, beautiful usually means deadly. Beautiful with a casual demeanor always means deadly.

Astrology is like any other branch of knowledge. It can be used for good or for ill, properly or improperly, by skilled and unskilled practitioners alike.

Take the risk and do whatever you can do and try not to get caught. If you do get caught, do it again.

Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective.

I was like a trashcan. I took everything.

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.