And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.

Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.

Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.

I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.

I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.

I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97.

On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.

Its just I fell into a bunch of movies that kind of fit in my life. It made sense to do them in the 80s. Folks who know me think its hilarious.

My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.

About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Innovation is what we're going to need for the future, and that's always been a part of the technology industry.

I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.

Everybody likes to win. It sure beats the devil out of losing.

Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect.

I did learn that there's no point in eating too much Vitamin C because it comes out of your bladder.

Like a mountain that's growing.

The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.

Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven years.