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

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

And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.

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.

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