Everything I've ever worked on has been hard to classify.

Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.

We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!

The truth is, writing and directing are two very different jobs. They're not even remotely the same job. It took me a while, as a director, to understand that.

Ive found that if you just try to make the film you want, youll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, youre going to make really boring films.

The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

This is what I do for fun - brainstorm about monsters!

I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.

The greatest villain of all time is The Joker - he always has been, and I don't know anyone who's not going to have Heath Ledger's performance burnt into their brains for the rest of their lives.

I happen to like things that are funny and dramatic at the same time. I don't see the difference.

The most fun characters to work with are characters that are complicated.

An honourable man is fair even to his enemies

That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the street’s burn.

Why should this war in the West be fought for the restoration of Poland? The Poland of the Versailles Treaty will never rise again.

He's so snobbish he has an unlisted zip-code.

The world is restructuring, and all of the enemies that used to exist are kind of gone, so now they are looking out for new enemies.

Some people have lives; some people have music.

I've always imagined that one day the path of your life would unroll at your feet and carry you away from us. As it should, as it must. But I am glad that day is not today.

When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.

Many people spend their entire lifetimes wishing that other people would acknowledge them. They feel this especially about their parents, spouses, children, and friends.

I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just a painting.