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

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.

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 most fun characters to work with are characters that are complicated.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

A single minded vision gives strength of purpose.

Without memories, there can be no good or evil. It will exist only indifference!

Now there was no sign of any foul weather, but when one wishes to do a thing . . . one finds no lack of reasons for the doing.

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

Do the work that feeds your soul, not your ego.

Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.

Each arc of color may be lovely to behold, but it is the full spectrum of our woman rainbow that glows with the brightest promise of better things to come.

Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.