I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

I hate housework! You make the beds you do the dishes - and six months later you have to start all over again.

I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.

the sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things.

You don't want to be too uptight about anything. Especially your job.

Be patient. Life will offer you another chance as soon as you find calm within, for abundance is born out of calmness.

Here's other quotes and sayings you can motivate yourself with. Practice only makes for improvement.

I think we're in the take-the-money-and-run stage of the economy. So the banks may go under, but the bankers, who make the policy, clean up.

What we know and believe is just a program; it is nothing but words, opinions, and ideas we learn from others and from our own life experience.

I've never been outside Heathrow so it will be exciting to see what London has to offer. I think I've only flown into Heathrow maybe twice.