Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.

I think true love is not only true personal love but totality of love, universal love - to be in love with everything manifest and everything unmanifest.

Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.

I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon.

Consciousness-based education, which I am helping to promote, is basically the same education that good schools are giving today with Transcendental Meditation added for the students, teachers, staff, and principal.

Everyone's got consciousness.. . Grow that ball of consciousness and all avenues of life improve. Your work just blossoms.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.