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.

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.

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

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.

Le livre est un morceau de silence dans les mains du lecteur. Celui qui écrit se tait. Celui qui lit ne rompt pas le silence.

We know the thing is four months away. Technically, it's already there and we're four months away.

I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.

And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.

I'm not a girl anymore, I'm a woman and my heart beats like prizefighter's fists, and I have not stopped yet, I will not stop.

People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti.

The power of evil men lives on the cowardice of the good.

I'm a person who tries not to have regrets.