Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.

We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.

It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.

As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.

Art is all in the details.

I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.

It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

I've never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat 'The Clock' like a puzzle and force the pieces to fit together in odd ways.

The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.

You start with an idea but then so many things can happen.

If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change.

Human making is our mission, but if you break the very soul of the would-be humans, then there will be no human to raise.

Only those exceptional at mimicking others feel at ease in the world.

Back then, Billy imagined that drops of rain were unanswered prayers falling back to earth.

We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening.

The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.

No matter what sort of adversity or challenge you might face, you can always believe that, with hope, it can be conquered and, in the end, you will be stronger for it.

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

Hee that looseth his due, gets not thankes.