I try not to get too cute for cute's sake.

Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.

We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!

The truth is, writing and directing are two very different jobs. They're not even remotely the same job. It took me a while, as a director, to understand that.

Ive found that if you just try to make the film you want, youll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, youre going to make really boring films.

The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

This is what I do for fun - brainstorm about monsters!

I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.

The greatest villain of all time is The Joker - he always has been, and I don't know anyone who's not going to have Heath Ledger's performance burnt into their brains for the rest of their lives.

I happen to like things that are funny and dramatic at the same time. I don't see the difference.

Everything I've ever worked on has been hard to classify.

If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.

A bird must rely on its own wings if it is to conquer the sky.

A leader learned to follow, and serves the followers who are learning to lead. ~T.F. Hodge

No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.

Hillary Clinton has been portrayed as robotic, someone who is trying to approximate real human emotion.

When you dream too much of the sun, you forget the trees.

Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.

He's a nice young lad. I'll keep putting him on ... as long as he doesn't tell me any lies. He's back focused and it's great to see. Let's hope he keeps going on from that.

And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.

Everyone loves something for nothing...even if it costs everything.