Iceland is fascinating; really an amazing place to visit, and great for a film to go there.

Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

I have respect for beer.

There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows.

I love going shopping. I have a black belt in it.

God bless America, God Save the Queen, God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

We can't repay our good luck with bad grace. It invites darkness.

If you live like it’s the past and you behave like it’s the past, then guys from the future find it very hard to see you.

Imagine what you will be, and it will be so.

The word try, means nothing. There's no such thing as trying to do something. The moment you begin a task, you're doing it. So just finish what you're doing.

I am in great mood.

Wasn't the whole point of being an artist, or at least part of it, that you didn't have to wear a tie?

It's impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It's the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.

If somebody stamps on your head in that way, you wouldn't say, 'Thank you very much, can I turn the other cheek'. Only Jesus Christ did that.

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

The dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the grass, And winter instantly becomes An infinite alas.

Why did the Lord inspire Mormon (or Moroni or Alma) to include that in his record? What lesson can I learn from that to help me live in this day and age?

A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.

Man has slapped nature in the face. If you slap it, it will slap you back.