The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

falling in love is the most natural thing in the world. Everybody has been through it, everybody has scars, everybody wants to restart falling in love.

Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.

Maybe the dreams make the people stronger, whatever.

I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

I always think of moments of love with someone I love.

What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy from the outside.

I think there can be incestuous love.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

On an everyday level, I use alcohol and drugs in general mostly to be in a happier mood, with the people around me.

There is no doubt that Einstein's pipe was his closest associate, while others--including wife and family--were never permitted the illusion that they would ever be at the center of his life.

Om meditation eliminates rigid and fixed views about the world. It creates a spacious, flexible and open views about the world.

My mother always taught me to be strong and to never be a victim. Never make excuses. Never expect anyone else to provide for me things I know I can provide for myself.

I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here who create those hooligans out there.

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.

Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.

In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.

A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral.

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.

It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.