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?

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

Forget being the best of anything. That's the fruit of the action, and you do the work -they say- for the doing, not the fruit. You can never really know how it's gonna turn out in the world but you know if you enjoy doing it. And ideas start flowing and you start getting, you know, excited about stuff. Then you're having a great time in the doing and that's what it's all about. If you don't enjoy the doing, then do something else.

I have smoked marijuana, but I no longer do. I went to art school in the 1960s so you can imagine what was going on. Yet my friends were the ones who said, "No, no, no, David, don't take those drugs." I was pretty lucky.

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

I'm not a political person. I don't understand politics, I don't understand the concept of two sides and I think that probably there's good on both sides, bad on both sides, and there's a middle ground, but it never seems to come to the middle ground and it's very frustrating watching it and seemingly we're not moving forward.

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.