I think being a little nuts is helpful.

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

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

I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.

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.

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.

The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face.