The world is as you are.

Everybody's got creativity. Dive within to the ocean of infinite creativity.

Two half hitches around the horn will hold the devil as sure as you're born.

In film, life-and-death struggles make you sit up, lean forward a little bit. They amplify things happening, in smaller ways, in all of us. These things show up in relationships. They show up in struggles and bring them to a critical point.

In the world there's a thing called collective consciousness. All of us billions of human beings together create that collective consciousness. With all the problems in our world, you can see that the collective consciousness is not so high.

Cigarettes are pretty much my worst vice, and I even stopped smoking for 20 years. I spend most of my free time with my family and working on art.

Eraserhead is my most spiritual movie. No one understands when I say that, but it is.