[On his 1965 sojourn to Europe to study art] "I didn`t take to Europe. I was all the time thinking, this is where I`m going to be painting. And there was no inspiration there at all for the kind of work I wanted to do."
(his films) mean different things to different people. Some mean more or less the same things to a large number of people. It`s okay. Just as long as there`s not one message, spoon-fed. That`s what films by committee end up being, and it`s a real bummer t...
[On his 1965 sojourn to Europe to study art] "I intended to stay three years. Instead, I stayed 15 days! I remember lying in an Athens basement with lizards crawling along the walls and contemplating that I was 7,000 miles from McDonalds!"
[on plans to build 100 transcendental meditation centers to bring an end to crime and war]: "Peace could be on this Earth this year. It would be a whole new world."
Cigarettes are pretty much my worst vice, and I even stopped smoking for 20 years. I spend most of my free time with my family and working on art.
