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.

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.

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

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.

I do not like the situation but will endure. It is only for awhile.

No culture is without access to divine mysteries.

We want to stay on the straight and narrow path and serve God, yet we continue a practice that often pulls us in the wrong direction.

Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of you. But you trust God's leading you and you just write into the space you can see ahead of you.

There's nightingales calling, shooting stars falling, like jewels in the rain.

If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.

Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently-and a good half of it is palpably useless.

Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.

Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.

He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.