I think people think filmmaking is fun, but I've never thought that. For me it's always been a lot of work and pain and stress.

If you look at the types of directors out there, I'm not as weird as most of them.

Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.

Learn to listen to subtle cues from your spirit instead of the barrage coming from your brain.

People who treat waitresses or waiters rudely - or taxi drivers - I have very little tolerance for those people. They work really hard. They deserve courtesy and respect.

I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away.

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

Because I live in California now, I find my musings really being centered in this world.

Kids eh? Little treasures, I love 'em... couldn't eat a whole one though.

I started writing it six and a half years ago, so the landscape has changed a lot in that time.

You know, one of the things I've learnt since coming out of office is how much easier it is to give the advice than take the decision. I mean, you know, it's tough.