Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.

Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.

I really like to talk to people and to get their take on things.

Personally, I do movies the way I cook. I put in what I like, in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week.

Essentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me.

Normally, if I'm being acknowledged it is for something in front of the camera. This puts the spotlight on the fact that there are opportunities other than just being an actor.

Directors love to do music, they've been doing that all along.

Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.

I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.

Physically, mentally, emotionally -- it seems like every part of me is broken in one way or another.

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

I just have to prove to myself, I don't have to prove to fans.

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.

Find Eloy. Smack his head into a wall, dance on his guts... I'd get creative. Spontaneous like.

Stillness is the altar of spirit.

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating. Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

I don't ever want to come home saying, 'I should have spoken my mind. I shouldn't have let someone say something that I didn't feel was right.'