I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.
I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon.
I love the quality, feel and history of film. I love the pictures of the giant cameras and the way it was.
I was raised Presbyterian, but I’m not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it’s at for me.
I’m not a musician, but I play music. So it’s a strange thing.
Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn’t even exist. It’s kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.
I have to make what I see, whether it’s a painting, a table, or a movie, or it’s like a death and what would be the point of that?
You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is, even though the paintings might take some time to make, with cinema you are booked for a year and a half, minimum.
Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story – the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.
Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.
People think in Hollywood there’s a family, where everybody gets together talks about stuff and we all know each other, and it’s just not that way at all to me.
Music deals with time and timing. It’s so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it’s critical, so critical. And if it’s not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.
Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that’s the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.
True happiness is not out there. True happiness lies within.
Eraserhead is my most spiritual movie. No one understands when I say that, but it is.
Negativity is the enemy of creativity. For instance if you’re filled with depression, you can hardly even get out of bed, let alone feel like creating something. If you are filled with bitter, selfish anger, this occupies the mind and leaves little room for creative ideas.
I’ve seen so many cases where lives have been transformed for the good and heard so many stories about this. The technique of Transcendental Meditation really works for the human being.
In a town like Twin Peaks, no one is innocent.
Float with me in the world of ether.
Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life.