The More Unknowable The Mystery, The More

It's A Simple Thing He [frank Daniel] Taught Me. If You Want To Make A Feature Film, You Get Ideas For 70 Scenes. Put Them On 3-by-5 Cards. As Soon As You Have 70, You Have A Feature Film.

I Like To Feel Like You Can Bite My Paintings. Not To Eat Them, To Hurt Them. I Like To Feel Like I'm Painting With My Teeth.

I Hear Heroin Is A Very Popular Drug These Days.

I Love Mysteries. To Fall Into A Mystery And Its Danger ... Everything Becomes So Intense In Those Moments. When Most Mysteries Are Solved, I Feel Tremendously Let Down. So I Want Things To Feel Solved Up To A Point, But There's Got To Be A Certain Percentage Left Over To Keep The Dream Going. It's Like At The End Of Chinatown: The Guy Says, 'forget It, Jake, It's Chinatown.' You Understand It, But You Don't Understand It, And It Keeps That Mystery Alive. That's The Most Beautiful Thing.

The Ideas Dictate Everything, You Have To Be True To That Or You're Dead.