The worst thing about this modern world is that people think you get killed on television with zero pain and zero blood. It must enter into kids' heads that it's not very messy to kill somebody, and it doesn't hurt that much. That's a real sickness to me. That's a real sick thing.

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?

I'm not any different than anybody else. But I do see a world, for me, that's getting better and better, not worse and worse. And I believe that world peace is coming quicker than we think. And I believe that people are not only yearning for it but will see a way to get it and help that way to come sooner. And it's going to be beautiful.

The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.

Sometimes film kills the room to dream.

I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

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