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What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.
Two half hitches around the horn will hold the devil as sure as you're born.
Everybody's got creativity. Dive within to the ocean of infinite creativity.
When you have something that brings a real emotion, that's the power of cinema.
I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.
Many things happen that we don't know the significance of until a little bit later.
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything.
Eraserhead is my most spiritual movie. No one understands when I say that, but it is.
The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process.
I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.
Be true to yourself. Don't take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.
Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.
The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
When you practice Transcendental Meditation you are given a key to the deepest level of life.
I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.
I don't think anybody really loves the sound of their own voice, but the tweakability is huge.
Every time I hear sounds, I see pictures. Then, I start getting ideas. It just drives me crazy
I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.
It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.
Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.
Chrysta Bell looks like a dream and Chrysta Bell sings like a dream. And the dream is coming true.
I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.
I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.
I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.
Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.
We're like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it's like a light; it affects the environment.
Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.
I love the quality, feel and history of film. I love the pictures of the giant cameras and the way it was.
Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.
The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.
I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.
I don't paint the town red. But when I do go out, people always want to touch my hair. It happens every time.
I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
Don't make a film if it can't be the film you want to make. It's a joke, and a sick joke, and it'll kill you.
Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don't want to come out of that wood.
I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy.
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.
Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.
Speaking in front of a large crowd is not pleasant. Once it gets rolling, it's okay. But beforehand, it's murder.
I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
It's important to listen to lots of different genres because you never know when something will get born out of it.