You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That's why I love coffee shops and public places - I mean, they're all out there.

I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.

Everybody's got creativity. Dive within to the ocean of infinite creativity.

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!

You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people.