If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

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 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.