I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind..

The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New Yo….

I prefer to think of film making - you know, um, the sweat is supposed to be invisible. But a lot of sweat can go into making a film. But of course, ….

A film about the love generation - the birthday party of the Aquarian Age showing actual ceremonies to make Lucifer rise. Lucifer is the Light god, n….

This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of July..

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to….

I'm a Thelemite. I believe in Thelema, which is Crowley's so-called religion. There are some practitioners here who do something called the Gnostic M….

Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form - all these are the work of Lucifer..

Although, of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else's. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material existence, glamour in….

A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of the myth of the American….

Making a movie is casting a spell..

Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed in their homes; I was, in e….

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routin….

I've made several films that haven't been shown..

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends..

I try to remember dreams, and occasionally I'll make a note or two in a notebook if it's something extra interesting. They do mean quite a lot to me,….

I think people dream in their own way, dreams are extremely personal, even from person to person. They are completely individual..

I think it's basically quite different from dreams. If only cinema was that easy. Because dreams, all you have to do is fall asleep, and you can have….

Well, everything is constantly evolving and changing. That's what life is all about. But basically Hollywood has lost its focus as a film center. Fil….

A lavish colored evocation of Hollywood now gone, as shown through an afternoon in the milieu of the 1920's film star..

If you are a member of the media, you belong to the public. You've made that Faustian bargain with your public. Take me – all of me – I'm yours..