I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.
I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.
See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.
Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.
As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.
Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
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.
Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.
A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.
Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life.
I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.
I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go.
Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.
The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.