All of the directors I've worked with I've gotten along with very well.

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.

You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.

It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.

I really love writing themes and melody.

While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time.

Well, unbeknownst to everybody, I did a movie when I was 19.

Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is “nothing.

We smoked a lot of weed together [with Seth Rogen and Jason Segel]. Lonely potheads will literally spend every day with each other until they get a girlfriend. That's essentially what happened.

I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.

My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.

I can lose myself in the Universe.

Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.

How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we entrust our care!

People are motivated when they see somebody else doing something.

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at.