No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

Understand life's mysteries, - as mysteries to be lived.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.

You can't legislate sobriety.

The thing that's interesting about wire walking is that we never get to see it other than looking up. It's like a circus thing. It's a guy on a wire.

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

Movies are movies. Some bend light through a lens. Some create moving images virtually. At the end of the day, movies are movies.

I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

'Black Hole Sun' was written in a car when I was driving home from the studio one night. Pretty much everything that you hear was written in my head.

A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

Biffy didn't like enigmas - they were out of fashion.

More bad news for the Taliban. Remember how they are promised 72 virgins when they die? Turns out that it's only one 72-year-old virgin.

I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of job description.

To choose the ideal voice for a character is to give a character an ardent and vivid life, to allow him or her to speak, rather than speaking for them, in an older style of omniscient narration.

Death is loneliness in its purest form.

It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.

Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided.