Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.

I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.

I really like to talk to people and to get their take on things.

Personally, I do movies the way I cook. I put in what I like, in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week.

Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

Essentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me.

Normally, if I'm being acknowledged it is for something in front of the camera. This puts the spotlight on the fact that there are opportunities other than just being an actor.

Directors love to do music, they've been doing that all along.

Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.

I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.

Sometimes it just feels really really wonderful to be alive.

You and I cannot afford to wait on the validation of others to get moving.

Love is a heart smile.

I love you, Esmeralda, ” he said.“I love you, too, ” she whispered back, and he couldn’t help smiling. At least he would die with those words in his ears.

I require and enforce as non-interrupted a state of living as you can get in America right now without going off to live by yourself in the mountains.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

You cant second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.

A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.

If we could feel what we are doing to the Earth, we would stop immediately.

A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.