You start selling the movie before you make it.

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.

Surfing makes me happy, so that's just what I'm going to keep doing.

There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terribly ghastly silence.

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

The bigger the headquarters the more decadent the company.

Positive mental attitude is determined by you. Not others.

Don't go into the new year holding a grudge from last year. Leave the hurts and disappointments behind.

And here I thought you had a soft spot for reckless young girls.

I'm very much inclined to be a next-chapter guy instead of a last-chapter guy.

I was awake and this was reality, the new reality of nothing--and worse, of having to continue to exist.