When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.

I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.