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" I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me. "

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" A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting. "

" A lot of music doesn't do one thing or another. It just doesn't do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It's such a wide range, and it's really interesting that we all love different things. "

" Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits. "

" Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there. "

" I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal. "

" I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues. "

" Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day. "

" Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique. "

" Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs. "

" I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then. "

" In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone. "

" Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life. "

" 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 only feels wrong, but it ruins things. "

" I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories. "

" Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music. "

" I think part of the reason ideas haven't come in is that the world of cinema is changing so drastically, and in a weird way, feature films I think have become cheap. Everything is kind of throwaway. It's experienced and then forgotten. "

" This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top. "

" You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is, even though the paintings might take some time to make, with cinema you are booked for a year and a half, minimum. "

" 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 because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace. "

" The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea. "

" I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one. "

" I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath. "

" I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing. "

" It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else. "

" A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it. "

" I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper. "

" An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well. "

" See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of. "