Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form - all these are the work of Lucifer.

I'm a Thelemite. I believe in Thelema, which is Crowley's so-called religion. There are some practitioners here who do something called the Gnostic Mass. I've been to that a few times, but basically, I'm a loner. I don't really need other people.

I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.

This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of July.

Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed in their homes; I was, in effect, filming ghosts.

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.

I think it's basically quite different from dreams. If only cinema was that easy. Because dreams, all you have to do is fall asleep, and you can have fantastic vision. I know Baudelaire and people like that enhance their dreams with opium or something. But films are very constructed - they're like architecture. They're pieced together, glued together. To me, it's a craft. It's like making a tapestry.