Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.

I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them more user-friendly and efficient.

But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.

There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker

The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

Animals are what we are and animals are what we'll stay.

Most people lose the only thing they possess—Life—while acquiring the many things that will finally never be theirs.

You have lost your mind, "Jamie said coldly, the shock receding slightly. "Or I should think you had, if ye had one to lose.

Americans are gluttons. We shop with forklifts. We have a holiday where we stuff food into other food. Our strippers wrestle in Jell-O, where other countries have to use mud.

I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.

What if what you know isn’t what people want to hear?

We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live.

Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.

Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.

I'll dream no more--by mainly mind Not even in sleep is well resigned. My midnight orisons said o'er, I'll turn to rest and dream no more.