The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.

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

We're like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it's like a light; it affects the environment.

Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it makes a kind of a bait. Ideas will come swimming up. And you don't know them until they enter the conscious mind. And then bingo! There it is! You know it instantly. And then more come in. If you go fishing for ideas, a lot of ideas will just pop in. And one of them will make you fall in love.

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.

My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity.