An artist is someone who feels the vibrations of the world and tries to transcribe them through his medium.

I think about the sincerity of my writing. I try to be true, to pose questions. Shake people up a bit and make them look in a direction they wouldn't normally.

I like speed in thrillers. It's a rhythm adapted to the subject.

It's the comedies and thrillers that are successful. People love horror, but in thrillers. Once you speak of pain and suffering it's a different matter.

Most of all people respond to a film tackling grave subjects that question and go against the prevailing mood.

They shall arrive in a murmurAnd shall disappear into fog and earth

Failure is an arrow pointing the right direction.

I didn’t intend the book as anything therapeutic and I don't think that’s a novel’s goal or responsibility.

Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

The theme, or harmony, of a painting can be created by any one of its visual elements. A single colour... repetition of shapes... Light can be a theme.

By pursuing the things you love, all the other things in life will fall into order.

I'm human, so of course certain things sometimes hurt. I just laugh at it.