I happen to like things that are funny and dramatic at the same time. I don't see the difference.

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.

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

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

We are not in the world, the world is inside us.

Love is the most potent instrument of action than anything known to humanity.

Apply expectations appropriately. Do not assume [all] adults are as grown up and mature as they should be, or appear to be.

Life is God's gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash.

Of the things I know to be true in life, right at the top of the list of irrefutable truths is, "No one ever listens to anyone." It might even be No. 1.

I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.

I don't like big feet. It reminds me of gammon.

If you accept limitations then, yeah, you'll be limited. If you don't accept limitations then the horizon is pretty vast.