I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I become very nervous when I go to a film because I worry so much about the director and it is hard for me to digest my popcorn.

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.

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

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

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.

Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.

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