And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.

Use your freedom to experiment with visual ideas.

Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.

The way back is always shorter.

The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but to experiment with the effects contemporary technical devices have on nerves, minds, or souls.

I make my pictures for what Hollywood spends on lipstick.

It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a moment when life breaks through to some higher level of intensity so that one's own life might take fire from that sudden spurted flame.