I was very concerned about who was going to take my story and realize it, so I was very particular and spent a lot of time going over things with him, talking about how I wanted it to be told.

It's my story ["Selling Isobel"].I chose to write a screenplay about it because I think film is the quickest medium to get a story out, rather than writing a book.

I considered writing a book too, but I think people don't like to read, to be honest - they want to watch. People want to see crazy things, so we decided to make a film ["Selling Isobel"] instead.

We reached a compromise [in film "Selling Isobel" ] - arty on the one hand, raw and crazy on the other.

In the midst of our worried searching we recklessly abandon the treasures that life has bestowed upon us in the mad hunt for that which we wish to bestow upon ourselves.

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.

Science sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.

Our father taught us how to play. He's also our biggest inspiration and he opened our ears to a lot of older music, like Richie Valens, Chuck Berry, Willie Nelson, and Fats Domino.

Of course much remains to know, but we know how to learn: through scientific research.

Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.

If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.