Angelo Badalamenti brought me into the world of music and that’s really what gave me permission to get into it even though I’m not a musician. It’s just an intuitive thing for me.
In Hollywood, more often than not, they’re making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone.
There’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.
I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.
I supported myself by delivering the ‘Wall Street Journal’ and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.
I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper.
One change of attitude would change everything. If everyone realized that it could be a beautiful world and said, ‘let’s not do these things anymore – let’s have fun.’
I think true love is not only true personal love but totality of love, universal love – to be in love with everything manifest and everything unmanifest.
I think part of the reason ideas haven’t come in is that the world of cinema is changing so drastically, and in a weird way, feature films I think have become cheap. Everything is kind of throwaway. It’s experienced and then forgotten.
I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like I’m painting with my teeth.
We’re like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it’s like a light; it affects the environment.
I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it’s going to be over. It’s not that way; it’s so energetic. That’s where all the energy and creativity is.
I think that commercials can really ruin a song. You know that the person sold the song for a good deal of money, and that was the tradeoff. But, music and picture can marry in a beautiful way, and the reverse also.
What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.
I love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I hate. There’s a couple, and I don’t even know exactly why I don’t like them.
I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.
Death in my mind isn’t a finality. There’s a continuum: It’s like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake up, or whenever you wake up, and it’s a new day.
Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.
I love child things because there’s so much mystery when you’re a child.
I would rather not make a film than make one where I don’t have final cut.