The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.

Intuition is knowingness, and this field of unbounded knowing, of knowingness, is within every human being. You start tapping into that and it becomes an ocean of solutions.

True happiness is not out there. True happiness lies within.

As a teenager, I was really trying to have fun 24 hours a day. I didn't start thinking until I was 20 or 21. I was doing regular goof-ball stuff.

Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside.

All my movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.

I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.