I find that I have no problem getting a table at a restaurant when I walk in.

The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.

I don't take a scene or word for granted.

Tarantino and Jackson is like Scorsese and DeNiro, and their silent communication.

I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.

The guy who kills 38 people is not the guy you'd want to have over at Thanksgiving.

If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.

But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.

'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.

I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.

Unfortunately, when you're the king of the hill, there's really only one way to go, and that's down.

The people that truly love us in life don't fight for us to remain a doormat for others.

He wrote very well in those days, as it happens, much better than he does now. He had absolute convictions, and style is nothing more than the absolute conviction of possessing a style.

As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.

I myself am Muslim and I stand on the side of an open society.

I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays.

It's just like I get this identity crisis: my body doesn't want to write, my mind doesn't want to write. Nothing about me wants to write, but I force myself to sit there and try. Nothing happens.

I want a horse and plough, Chickens too, Just one cow, With a wistful moo.

I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past

When scoring a film, empathy is the key. And it is just as important to use music to express the actors' emotions as it is to move the audience.