I just love the look of film. But I have nothing against HD.

I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.

Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.

It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.

You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.

I just thinks it's interesting what it takes an actor to find their characters through the wardrobe, or the hair, or the way a character walks.

You're never nice to your friends. You're nice to people you don't like!

I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.

The holy faith is the strong force.

Throughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless.

All unlived emotions turn to inanity.

Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would otherwise have appeared disconnected or chaotic.

What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.

I found myself recycling ideas and I saw that I had to invent reasons to compose a piece rather than start from some exciting idea.

The hardest part of watching someone watching me is making it appear that I'm not watching.

Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.