I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.

I don't think any of us are normal people.

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.

You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song.

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself.

People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it.

Everything is about balance. You can't work, work, work, work without any play.

Just write the best you can about the things that concern you most. I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

The equality of play was a surprise-it was the most competitive race in the seven-year history of MLS.

I think that's what being a chef is all about: camaraderie and teamwork. I never feel that it should be so cutthroat that you can't help the other chefs.

Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum

It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

The Bible tells us that there are some things worth fighting for. In fact, the Bible says there's some things worth dying for.

The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world.