I really feel like I could do anything if given enough time.

Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story events that mere mention would spoil.

If you look at pictures of David O. Selznick , he wasn't even attractive. There's no way to portray him in a way that is glamorous, but that's one of the things that's fascinating to me about him.

As a performer, I could be like, "I don't want to leave that in there." But as a producer, I have to leave it in there.

I just think the David O. Selznick story is one of the great, epic stories of Hollywood history that nobody knows. Maybe one of the reasons why nobody knows it is because he wasn't a movie star.

In terms of the way the industry operates, the studio system was such its own thing. It's so different now that it's a globalized world.

Hollywood is really weird to talk about in this monolithic sense because it's this microcosm of anywhere. It's full of a lot of people who have different intentions and different points of view.

I was trying to see if I could produce an episode - completely write it and research it and record it and edit it - all by myself in a week.

The thing that breaks my heart about [Dennis Wilson] is that he was very naïve from the beginning to the end.

Hatred does not help us alleviate our pain even in the slightest.

It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.

We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies.

I do not believe in Belief.

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

Mysticism cuts through bullshit, and it takes you right there to the experience. Everything in your life is eventually set up as a pragmatic energy flow into the light.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.

Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.