Roads remain the essential network of the non-virtual world. They are the infrastructure upon which almost all other infrastructure depends. They are the paths of human endeavor.

...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that way.

I don’t regret anything I was before because I still am.I only regret not having loved you.Put your hands in mineAnd let’s be quiet, surrounded by life.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly.

I like to combine different aspects in my work, to cover different areas, but I do see them as being separate.

It is in the contrast of light and dark that design happens.

Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.

Short film: you can be poetic and you don't have to answer anything. You can make whatever you want. You have creative freedom with short film.

How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.

My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.