The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

When you do something that works you have a happiness, but I don't know if it's a feeling of power. Power is a frightening thing and that's not what I'm interested in. I want to do certain things and make them right in my mind and that's it.

Script is not finished until it's finished. There's many times, partway through a film, when an idea comes, and I say, "How beautiful this is. This thing was not complete and look what's happened, look what's come along." And it just came along at what might be called a strange time rather than a normal time.

My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.

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?

Consciousness-Based Education is just plugging us all into the beautiful, eternal field within, and then watching things get better, which is what happens. It's a field of infinite, unbounded peace within every human being, and when you experience it, you enliven that peace.

My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.