Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.

I'd better make hay while the sun shines.

It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.

I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.

I don't look too far ahead.

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.

Hurried and worried until we're buried and there's no curtain call Life's a very funny proposition after all.

Yet love enters my blood like an I.V., dripping in its little white moments.

I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.

Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.

If the F.A.A. was around when the Wright Brothers were testing their aircraft, they would never have been able to make their first flight at Kitty Hawk.

President Bush has had an outstanding Secretary of State in Colin Powell and there are not many people who could replace him, making Condoleezza Rice an excellent choice.

The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism.

Knowing all objects to be impermanent, let not their contact blind you, resolve again and again to be aware of the Self that is permanent.

A recession is when your neighbour has to tighten his belt. A depression is when you have to tighten your own belt. And a panic is when you have no belt to tighten and your pants fall down.