Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001.

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.

I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.