The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.

I had written a script called "Freed," which I had wanted to direct.

A script like Nightcrawler gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision thats mine, which is exciting.

Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes out.

A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.

I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work seven days a week, and I live in this sort of vague subconscious fog a lot.

You are alone, So alone, You speak back to silence.People call it loneliness, You call it solitude, Different words, Meaning the same pain.

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.

Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.

Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as pleasure-seeking tends to be followed by painful after-effects.

A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground.

My features are completely ethnic.

Advertising, if it is any good, should help to confirm what already is, not what should be.

Oh, pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.

I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.