That's kind of how I've based my career. I find talented people and beg me to let me work with them.

Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.

We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!

The truth is, writing and directing are two very different jobs. They're not even remotely the same job. It took me a while, as a director, to understand that.

Ive found that if you just try to make the film you want, youll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, youre going to make really boring films.

The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

This is what I do for fun - brainstorm about monsters!

I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.

The greatest villain of all time is The Joker - he always has been, and I don't know anyone who's not going to have Heath Ledger's performance burnt into their brains for the rest of their lives.

I happen to like things that are funny and dramatic at the same time. I don't see the difference.

Everything I've ever worked on has been hard to classify.

The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth

My dad was nothing but a bingo call.

...when I look at and study the ranks of my books - for I have put the name of each author on the binding - I feel as if I am looking at the holy graves of those who wrote them.

Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain

I'm lonely, but everyone is lonely So at least I know I'm not alone.

Love understands love; it needs no talk.

The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.

We need to glance at our problems and stare at Jesus!

The heart has such an influence over the understanding, that it is worth while to engage it in our interest.

Booze is the most outrageous of drugs which is why I chose it.