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.

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.

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.

The most fun characters to work with are characters that are complicated.

Because all the brilliant ones- they can sing it and they can paint it, but they can't do it. You can't expect them to love you.

The Internet is the Petri dish of humanity. We can't control what grows in it, but we don't have to watch either.

DAD (Decide-Announce-Defend) remains the order of the day, with only a few inspiring models of EDD (Engage-Deliberate-Decide) available to us to demonstrate how very different things could be.

Who says that money don't matter?If you are Rich all the world will know about you, if you are poor no one give a crap about what it's happening to you!"Life It's Short, enjoy this moment.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

We were ensconced as guests of the exclusive Beverly Hilton Hotel, an edifice so swank that the fire ax in the hall outside our suite said: "In case of fire-break crystal."

I'll be needing a bridesmaid',she said.'A tall one. That way, I'll look more petite and feminine.

A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.

A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.