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.
Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.
I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.
I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.
I don't paint the town red. But when I do go out, people always want to touch my hair. It happens every time.
A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically.
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.
Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.
I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.
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.
I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.
Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.
People think in Hollywood there's a family, where everybody gets together talks about stuff and we all know each other, and it's just not that way at all to me.
More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't.
I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.
