“We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am...” — Stan Brakhage Quote

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

The video maker doesn't easily face a blank page. Because the videomaker can run it either any way, this way or the other way and erase it if they don't like it and so on.

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.'

How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?

I really am not going to get involved in a discussion about the legal position of the Iraq war. I am not the person to do that because I am not sufficiently impartial as a lawyer about this, because it's a matter that is of interest to the person that I am closest to in the world.

Speaker Boehner has said many times that the House of Representatives is the closest institution to the people, and he recognizes that by empowering the members to have direct input into the process.

I feel like Jim Carrey is probably the closest thing to a true physical comedian that we have working today.

I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.