When you get an idea, so many things come in that one moment. You could write the sound of that idea, or the sound of the room it's in. You could write the clothes the character is wearing, what they're saying, how they move, what they look like. Instead of making up, you're actually catching an idea, for a story, characters, place, and mood - all the stuff that comes.

I have to make what I see, whether it's a painting, a table, or a movie, or it's like a death and what would be the point of that?

Everybody's got creativity. You just get more of it [when you meditate].

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood -- like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.