Occupation: Filmmaker Birth: March 15, 1943
So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born..
I'm very anti-religious because religion tends to disembody you..
I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just bec….
My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife..
Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult..
I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all..
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….
For me, it's just a normal artistic endeavour to explore the dark side. Certainly, I'm not alone in it. Artists generally don't like to accept the ve….
Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death..
Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab..
I'm simply a nonbeliever and have been forever. ... I'm interested in saying, 'Let us discuss the existential question. We are all going to die, that….
I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation..
As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and ….
Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not bor….
I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like ….
Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease..
The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art..
I like to laze around. I think that's a huge part of creativity. You have to let your mind relax and then another part of your brain suddenly connect….
Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and ….
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 tha….
The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very curious abou….