I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

All of the directors I've worked with I've gotten along with very well.

You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.

It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.

I really love writing themes and melody.

While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time.

Well, unbeknownst to everybody, I did a movie when I was 19.

The age can be impressed. Anything will be accepted by men if you will but preach it with tremendous enthusiasm, emotion, persuasionnergy and living earnestness.

I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of subjectivity but honesty. It is eye-witness photography.

Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.

I'm a good person, but with many defects.

You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.

[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.

Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out.

As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new and keep it exciting.

It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality.

The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.