Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on.

I've never seen, heard, nor smelled an issue that was so dangerous it couldn't be talked about. Hell yes, I'm for debating anything!

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.

I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life kind of a detective story.

My hand trembles, my heart does not.

There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.

Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.

We shoot double episodes in 15 days in Los Angeles.

I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done.

To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me.

The difference between "active" and "busy" is that the former includes reflection and is directed, whereas the busy life feels out of control and does not seem purposeful or meaningful.

What's the use of the wind if it won't take you away on it?

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

That's twice he (Terry Phelan) has got between himself and the goal.

If you don't know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will.

How most consumers collect and interpret health information has changed.

It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes.

It's incredible how the human body is. That it could do so much. That it can go beyond the everydayness of life; That it can be extraordinary and powerful, and harbor a spirit of hope and pure will.

Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.

I think around that time I met David [Gordon Green] or, well, we all met at Superbad and Judd [Apatow] said, 'I'm thinking about having him direct [ Knocked Up].' Sounded like a good idea.