Civilization has provided no peace, no spectacle, no assurance to the human heart which can transcend the simple, ever-changing, matchless beauty and peace of the natural world

You have music in your heart

If you’re just starting out, don’t focus on the cheese, focus on the cow.

My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

When in doubt, doubt the doubt!

Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.

I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.

I'm a Pisces - emotional.

Its not that I'm in love with myself, I'm just trying to pick up everyone else's slack.