“The big treasury is an ocean of infinite creativity. It’s a creativity that creates everything that is a thing – it’s mighty powerful creativity.”

I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we’re all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.

A filmmaker doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don’t have to die to shoot a death scene.

What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.

Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.

The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.

Secrets and mysteries provide a beautiful corridor where you can float out. The corridor expands and many, many wonderful things can happen, I love the process of going into mystery.

Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.

New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.

There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.

Float with me in the world of ether.

The world is as you are.

I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.

Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?

But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying the analogy of an art with hard and fast rules to a creative process

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.

To live an honest, simple life, filled with creativity, joy, compassion, and a deeper, richer appreciation for the world around us.

Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.

Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.