I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

I do have a special feeling for mice. Mice gathered in my wastebasket when I worked late at night. I lifted them out and kept them in little cages on my desk. …

I don't make films for children. I make films that children aren't embarrassed to take their parents to.

Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly - I think they're convinced and I think they'll hang…

She has no strong white arms to fold you, But the ten-times-fingering weed to hold you - Out on the rocks where the tide has rolled you.

Beauty from order springs.

My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving.