I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.

In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

When wild the head-wind beat, Thy sovereign Will commanding Bring them who dare to fly To a safe landing.

I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.

I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.

You should be more carefulwhen you move, my dearwhat with you...spilling moonlightinto my poem, with a mereflick of your hand.

I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.

Craving security is the cause of insecurity. Freedom is knowing that the only point of arrival is now.

I don't think radio has to be sectioned off where you listen to the music for your generation and your son listens to the music for his generation.

Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.

I had no occasion for an apron on that morning.

Why do scuba divers fall backwards off a boat? Because if they fell forwards they'd still be in the boat.

Behind every fortune, there's a crime.

One man or woman called of God is worth a hundred who have elected to work for God.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.