Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

You don't dive for specific solutions; you dive to enliven that ocean of consciousness. Then your intuition grows and you have a way of solving those problems-knowing when it's not quite right and knowing a way to make it feel correct for you. That capacity grows and things go much more smoothly.

It's a simple thing he [Frank Daniel] taught me. If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70, you have a feature film.

The big treasury is an ocean of infinite creativity. It's a creativity that creates everything that is a thing - it's mighty powerful creativity.

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

The world is as you are.