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.

The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.

In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone.

Eraserhead is my most spiritual movie. No one understands when I say that, but it is.

My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity.

I'm convinced we all are voyeurs. It's part of the detective thing. We want to know secrets and we want to know what goes on behind those windows. And not in a way that we would use to hurt anyone. There's an entertainment value to it, but at the same time we want to know: What do humans do? Do they do the same things as I do? It's a gaining of some sort of knowledge, I think.

The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light.