Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are.

I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn't find the proof. It was just a kind of feeling. There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another force - a wild pain and decay - also accompanies everything.

Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.

Because you make a world that didn't exist before, and you can go into that world deeper and deeper. It's unbounded out there. One film takes you into one area, another film takes you into another area. There could be trillions, zillions of worlds that exist in the big space.

I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

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

My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.