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

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

When you practice Transcendental Meditation you are given a key to the deepest level of life.

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

I like the saying: "The world is as you are." And I think films are as you are. That's why, although the frames of a film are always the same - the same number, in the same sequence, with the same sounds - every screening is different. The difference is sometimes subtle but it's there. It depends on the audience. There is a circle that goes from the audience to the film and back. Each person is looking and thinking and feeling and coming up with his or her own sense of things. And it's probably different from what I fell in love with.

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 just hope that I get a chance to keep making pictures in the atmosphere of freedom to make mistakes, and to find those magical things. Then I don't care what else happens.