Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.

Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.

I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

As the years go by, it’s our relationships that will leave us the best memories to celebrate endlessly.

Dark alleys, like social networks, are romantic, because you never know what might happen while I perform there every Caturday night. Cats do know, but won't tell. So don’t even ask.

Winners don’t think defeat. They think victory.

When a dog runs at you whistle for him.

It's easy to see that two people might come up with that same idea.

We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.

Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not?

Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.

Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.