Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.

I think that commercials can really ruin a song. You know that the person sold the song for a good deal of money, and that was the tradeoff. But, music and picture can marry in a beautiful way, and the reverse also.

I would rather not make a film than make one where I don't have final cut.

I was creative before I started meditating, but I had, looking back, a weakness. I wasn't self-assured. I had a little bit of melancholy. I had a lot of anger for my situations in life, and I would take this out on my first wife.

I like things to be orderly.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.