I Just Wanted It To Be American.

A Scientist Shouldn't Be Asked To Judge The Economic And Moral Value Of His Work. All We Should Ask The Scientist To Do Is Find The Truth And Then Not Keep It From Anyone.

I Never Cared About Making One Coherent Masterpiece With A Conventional Narrative. I Always Wanted My Movies To Have Images Falling From All Directions In A Vaudevillian Way. If You Didn't Like What Was Happening In One Scene, You Could Just Snooze Through It Until The Next Scene. That Was The Thing About Vaudeville: You Didn't Have To Worry About The Beginning And Ends Of These Things.

If Richard Wagner Lived Today, He Would Probably Work With Film Instead Of Music. He Already Knew Back Then That The 'great Art Form' Would Include A Sort Of Fourth Dimension; It Was Really Film He Was Talking About.

I Have No Desire For Any Type Of Introspection At All. I Don't Ever Ask Myself Any Questions. I Don't Want Answers.

I Never Cared So Much About Making Perfect Sense. I Wanted To Make Perfect Nonsense.