When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.

Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition.

I was raping Frank Herbert, but with love.

Life is a way of perfection. You need to work on yourself. You become a good person. If you do your work you will discover sublime feelings.

And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day I'll see you trembling, and you'll go into convulsion and grow larger and smaller until your mouth opens and the world will come from your mouth, escaping through the window like a river, and it will flood the city. And then we'll begin to live.

I wanted to make a film that gave the people who took LSD at that time the hallucinations that you get with that drug, but without hallucinating.

You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.