Long Live The New Flesh.

All Stereotypes Turn Out To Be True. This Is A Horrifying Thing About Life. All Those Things You Fought Against As A Youth: You Begin To Realize They're Stereotypes Because They're True.

See, You Can't Rewrite, 'cause To Rewrite Is To Deceive And Lie, And You Betray Your Own Thoughts. To Rethink The Flow And The Rhythm, The Tumbling Out Of The Words, Is A Betrayal, And It's A Sin, Martin, It's A Sin." --hank (kerouac)to Martin (ginsberg) In The Film Naked Lunch

It Was Apparent To Me That Religion Was An Invented Thing, A Wish-fulfillment Thing, A Fantasy Thing. It Was Much More Real, Dangerous, To Accept That Mortality Was The End For You As An Individual. As An Atheist, I Don't Believe In An Afterlife, So If You're Thinking Of Murder, If Your Subject Is Murder, Then That's A Physical Act Of Absolute Destruction Because You're Ending Something, A Body, That Is Unique. That Person Never Existed Before, Will Never Exist Again, Will Not Be Karmically Recycled, Will Not Go To Heaven, Therefore I Take It Seriously.

When I Am Creating Art, I Have Absolutely No Social Responsibility. It's Like Dreaming.

The More Unique Your Film Is And Unusual It Is And Difficult It Is, The Harder It Is To Get It Financed. That's Why A Lot Of Good Filmmakers Are Doing Television. They Do Hbo Movies.