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!

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

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

Fame Imperishable and glory that will never die -- that is what we march for!

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we did.

Every question was like the snapping of a little thread about my heart.

Maybe it's just me but I would suspect that a man trying to impress a woman would be more likely to bring out the steak - "I killed this for you, now I'm grilling it for you."

To break a Navy Seal, you have to kill us. That's why we can make it into our training. That's why we can call ourselves Seals because the only way your gonna break us is to kill us.

Not disabilities at all - more Abilities.

I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.