"If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience."

"I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal."

"My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me."

"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!"

"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."

"ambition, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead."

"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world."

"Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species."