Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.

I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better - time, consciousness and the dream-like basis of reality.

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.