If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

Consciousness is the glory of creation.

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.