When I do a mix tape for my kids, for my friends, for my lover, I meticulously choose the tracks, and it's beautiful. And when they are alone they think of me - and when I am alone I think of them.

I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.

I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.

There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful.

As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.

You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with the emotion.

Just film what's there, trust what came before, one hour before, and make it easy.

I look back, and I've got a couple of films, and I'm happy.

I love those films where I feel the director's confidence - where he doesn't need to overdo it with the shots and the cuts.

I'm from the 'less is more' school. I had to be in the 'more is more' zone with 'Dallas Buyers Club', so I was out of my comfort zone, but I had to trust that.

In a career, when you hit 40 and you've done a lot of this and that, you want to try some new things. I feel like that as a director, too, from one film to the other.

Breath is breath.

I'm not copying you!" Luke said. "A werewolf is totally different than a vampire! You're creepy all the time. Mine is just, like, a monthly thing....""Like PMS?" I suggested. "Shut up!

I can't begin to tell you how fulfilling the perennial nature of 'Elf' on television has been for me. It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor.

Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.

Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.

We can deal with Russia on counterterrorism. We have and I think we are right now. That's easy.

As I get older every year, I'm eating better. As a kid, who can turn down chips and candy? But I'm getting better.

Virgin Records will probably release their own package sometime next year.

It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.

I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.