More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't.

So much of what happened to me is good fortune. But I would say: Try to get a job that gives you some time; get your sleep and a little bit of food; and work as much as you can. There's so much enjoyment in doing what you love. Maybe this will open doors, and you'll find a way to do what you love.

Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.

When you do something that works you have a happiness, but I don't know if it's a feeling of power. Power is a frightening thing and that's not what I'm interested in. I want to do certain things and make them right in my mind and that's it.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything.