The great coming to age of cable is really a beautiful thing. No commercials. It's like a small theater. It's a cinema on a TV screen.

Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.

My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It's people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It's a beautiful thing.

When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.

To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.

Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story, the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.

I think part of the reason ideas haven't come in is that the world of cinema is changing so drastically, and in a weird way, feature films I think have become cheap. Everything is kind of throwaway. It's experienced and then forgotten.

I just have to think of Philadelphia now, and I get ideas, I hear the wind, and I'm off into the darkness somewhere.

New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.

Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.

The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.