My trade is a lonely one. I'm a craftsman, if you like. It so happens that these days singers are better paid than blacksmiths.

Love to the love tear, even too, same evil, Attempt, without strength and armor, To reach the unreachable star.

The only fear that builds character, is the fear of God.

My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.

I used to fly off the handle in everyday life, but I'm a little calmer now.

I think I'm a dime, I think I'm amazing, I think I'm blessed and a blessing to whoever gets me next. I think that person has to understand that because that's the way I'm going to treat them as well.

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites.

I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.

I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.

People get killed every ten or 20 minutes. When we die, we are just another statistic.

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.