Maybe this is extremely selfish of me, but I do things that I want to make and I don't really care about anyone else when I'm thinking about an idea.

I'm smart enough to realize that the world does not stop and change because I want it to.

I want to do things that are very outside of the box, and I want to do movies that no one else can do. If someone else can make the movie that I'm making, then I shouldn't do it.

You can say, "I don't believe in anything," but you do because you believe in nothing. That is your belief system.

I don't think people realizemilie-autumn-devils-carnivale that, once you turn your director's cut in, it's no longer yours.

I want to make these films that I think other people would be scared to do. I don't think anyone can go off and make a rock opera. I think it's a very specific niche.

It's no fun to think about infinity and no cinche to write about it. Again, it helps to look for some human link.

Hell says hallelujah when fools say amen without understanding or applying truth to their lives.

Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone.

God is no 3-second lover

Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

Beijing is an example of [families were displaced for the Olympics]. Something like 10,000 families were moved out.

Maybe somewhere down the line when I'm done playing, I'd want to style NBA players.

They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that.

Many people think that we have no shared value system in the world today but we actually do.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.