On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.

I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

With Cosmic Ordering you can keep your luxuries and ask for more.

Even the brightest sun can be obscured by clouds, this is the power of nature.

Everything eaten is killed. Every meal is a sacrifice.

All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry "Help!

Iron sharpens iron scholar the scholar.

Jews can't serve on juries because they insist they're guilty.

If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.

Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.

The gift of The Giver is something good and true and beautiful about what is good and true and beautiful in humanity.

Whoever want my spot can play me one-on-one for it.