If you are really working on something intensely, your social skills fall away and you are not fit to be brought out into public.

I am so delighted when I get to see a really good movie. In that experience the artifice of movie making, the photography or the cutting style, falls away because you are inside the movie.

Part of the discipline of being an editor is that you have to be a good audience member; your work is to be a surrogate audience member on the films you are working on.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Seeing someone reading a book you love is seeing a book recommending a person.

Sometimes, " he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

The biggest threats to human survival today are not wars or conflict, it is modern business.

Every dance you make belongs to you. It is part of your collection. When you think of it like that, you'll want to make your next routine the best you've ever made!

The worst is not so long as we can say "This is the worst."

I love TV, and I love movies, and I pull so much content from the drama in all of those mediums and put them into songs.

Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.

Despite its increased dependence on the international economy, America continues to behave as if it were either a closed economy or the leader whom everyone else should automatically follow.

Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.