I'm glad that I'm able to entertain and be a part of people watching shows and enjoying the work.

Do I believe in giving up? No, I don't.

Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.

I like to direct for the big screen.

I went to Ithaca, found the Grateful Dead and my life was changed.

I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.

I like old cars, old watches, anything with a vintage, antique kind of a feel to it. I'm just more in tune with that than anything else.

The future is destined only for tomorrow's work and today's thoughts.

I talk a lot in metaphors. I get my words out but sometimes they don't make sense.

I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.

I see L.A. as a beautiful blonde with dirty underwear.

With fiction, I tend to get to my desk and start writing. Poetry I write in my head, often while walking, so that my poems have an organic quality, hopefully.

Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?

We're always inventing, even if we're making someone who's fairly close to ourselves.

Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.

A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity.

Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.

The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.

Lord loves a workin' man; don't trust whitey

Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame.

I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.