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.

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

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

I love the freedom of my wings. I love the empty space above the ground. I rejoice in my freedom. Freedom is my religion. Peace is my God. Love is my worship.

At times we are the worst racist enemies of our black selves.

A sacrifice is not convenient. If it is something we can easily do, then it is not a sacrifice.

I arose a mother in Israel.

Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

I love you. And I'm going to keep loving you even after you don't know I exist.

Whatever trips you make, you must still have nature in your eye.

In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity.

In every religion, you find the same extremists.

Rio would be my last Olympics.