I don’t believe man is woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.
Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.
Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.
I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.
I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.
I think being a little nuts is helpful.
I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.
The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance.
It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind.
There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.
It's a great kindness to trust people with a secret. They feel so important while telling it.