More blood! More blood!

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.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.

I think every intelligent woman should have a career.

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.

Chefs don't do ponytails and we shouldn't do them because I guarantee that whenever there's a discovery of hair in the food, it's guaranteed it's from the chef's ponytail.

Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness.

Treat the world the way you want to be treated.

Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.

Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.