I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like I'm painting with my teeth.

Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

I think part of the reason ideas haven't come in is that the world of cinema is changing so drastically, and in a weird way, feature films I think have become cheap. Everything is kind of throwaway. It's experienced and then forgotten.

Freedom. It's like no constraints, an opening, and then barriers going away and lifting and breaking and experimentation and...it's like attempting for something.

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

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