I just haven't let myself get to a place where I've felt a part of any kind of a community, so I've always stayed outside of it.

I just haven't let myself get to a place where I've felt a part of any kind of a community, so I've always stayed outside of it.

What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead.

For certain things, certain audiences, people will laugh. And in other places, there's dead silence. And I enjoy them both. You try to make films where it's never one way - like life.

I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene. That was the thing about vaudeville: You didn't have to worry about the beginning and ends of these things.

If Richard Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the 'Great Art Form' would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about.