40 quotes found
“New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.”
“You can understand conflict, but you don'thave to live in it.”
“Intuition is seeing the solution.....its emotion and intellect going together.”
“Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.”
“Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.”
“Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.”
“I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they're like little flowers. I've always said that if you have a name for somethi...”
“I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.”
“I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.”
“I love going into another world, and I love mysteries. So I don't really like to know very much ahead of time. I like the feeling of dicovery.”
“Its maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets bigger and bigger and bigger and prettier and prettier and prettier.”
“People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The thing is, I get these ideas that I truly fall in love with. And a good movie idea is often like ...”
“I quit smoking in December. Im really depressed about it. I love smoking, I love fire, I miss lighting cigarettes. I like the whole thing about it, to me it turns into the artists life, and now peo...”
“I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continui...”
“I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. There's nobody like him. He's unique, and just... way out cool.”
“Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not ...”
“More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't.”
“I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.”
“Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.”
“A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.”
“The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.”
“Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being beca...”
