I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.

See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow and the rhythm, the tumbling out of the words, is a betrayal, and it's a sin, Martin, it's a sin." --Hank (Kerouac)to Martin (Ginsberg) in the film Naked Lunch

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.

Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.

My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?

But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder.

Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.