My goal is to keep making films and grow as a film maker; that's always my goal.

You can't make everyone happy right away, you can't figure out what people want you to do, you just have to do what you want to do and hope it works out.

Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.

Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.

White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it.

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.

The only thing I ever really care about is animals - animal causes. I don't really care about people that much, but animals I feel like they always need to be protected.

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun.

I don't know that I have a fascination with witches per se - well, maybe I just have a fascination with everything that's weird.

You must love when your eyes are closed and love when your eyes are open. Love endlessly.

In essence, the job of the strategist is to understand and cope with competition. P. 25

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

Each character you play has its own set of characteristics, for want of a better word.

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

I'm not a rock star, I'm a soft person.

The greatest revelation is stillness.

The consumer mentality - we like something, what other flavor does it come in? We like that TV show, does it come in a book form? Does it come in a capsule? How about a soup?

I've always had the sensation that people in America are always avant-garde. Very attentive to all the new innovations. But it's very specialized.

It can connect us to memories. It can influence our mood and our responses to problems we might face.