Sometimes I start with music on and then I get distracted because I'm working to a different rhythm; I'm not working to myself. So, I don't have music on when I'm working.

I probably protect myself by not asking myself too much.

I like actual songs and bands, but it's usually parts, like the production, the bassline, the drums, that I'm really attracted to.

I started using Notes [on my iPhone] but I do a lot of hand written notes. It's a very slow, accumulative thing.

Performances have a bit of a life and a time scale to themselves.

I'm one who needs to be in the space [for] a sense of place and order. It's crucial.

I don't analyze too much, because then I'll question, 'Why do I write down all of these random little phrases?'

I'm not really interested in making someone endure a performance or stand there for too long. I like to think about the length.

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

Life is a dancing dream.

The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer.

It's time to reconnect to the natural world for the sake of the animals, and our collective conscience. Because without spiritual health there can be no physical health.

When I go to the cinema I watch all different kinds of films.

There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff.' I want all the action to look realistic.

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

You just have to keep believing in yourself.

Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely.

I actually did a lot of improvised movies or movies that were partially improvised.