I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and discover what they think and feel.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab.

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.

My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.

I like to laze around. I think that's a huge part of creativity. You have to let your mind relax and then another part of your brain suddenly connects with the solution you're trying to find.

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.

Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.

You are hiding something from me, I say and Sidney Grice shakes his head. 'No, ' he tells me quietly. 'I am hiding a great many things'.

I advise, however, moderation in this task of setting goals, or else risk becoming tangled up in a Gordian knot of life’s many disappointments.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.

Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown; Both most are valued where they best are known.

I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.

The technician should never forget that he is an artist, the artist never that he is a technician

We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe.

Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.