Books are not distractions. Rather, they are, and have been, the most profound and accurate mirrors man has ever crafted.

In the City of Light, the stars are blind. Our constellations do not reside in the skies.

Travel experiences are emotionally loaded. Often there is excitement and stimulation. The tingle-factor though comes partly from the fact that we're stressed, just a little.

notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.

Photography and painting, all of that fed into my directing eventually.

But it's all about confidence and allowing yourself to put your personality into it. I really am the worst singer on the planet; I make people cry and vomit when I sing.

How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.

I've never tried to make a movie to pay an overhead. We're in a very creative business, and I want to make movies because I enjoy that movie or that material.

Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had.

I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.