I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.

The success of the Hollywood marketing machine is to limit what we see. Not just to limit what we can see, but also to limit our expectations - to limit what we want to see.

I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world.

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.

Hyperbole is something Id better avoid.