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.

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.

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.

The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock.

A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being.Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute

I feel so lonely every night and every day and I still push everyone away…

People who say they don't have time, in fact have no plans to do anything.

Live whatever draws out the magic within.

If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar.

Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian.

Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.

Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.

I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.

I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask.