I grew up loving Ridley Scott and Tony Scott and Michael Bay and Adrian Lyne.

I spent a long time trying to make it in the commercial world hoping that commercials would then lead to movies. That was a less-travelled path at the time, although it's very well-travelled now.

A lot of the commercials that I was doing were very slice-of-life, emotional, documentary-style, not big and cinematic and ultimately like the kind of movie I wanted to make.

I allow myself to get firmly sucked in. I love that! I come from that.

When you give appreciation IN ORDER TO get something– it's manipulation and people can sense it. Appreciate genuinely.

There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one.

There are only 3 things that can make your dreams come true: your thoughts, your words, and your actions.

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.

It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; the tear may be forgotten.... but the hurt stays in the heart.

We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.

The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience.

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

It was a mixed bag pretty much all week. A lot of really, really good stuff out there, some mediocre and some bad.