Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.

It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians.

The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.

There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.

I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I had the amplification and the lights.

When you create a fence, you keep people out, but you also limit your mobility.

I have always wanted to be either a cinematographer or a veterinarian.

I've never had a mentor. I've always wanted one. I'm actually really disappointed that nobody took my under their wing.

Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of "Losing My Religion." That's a landmark piece.

There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.

There's also something sexual about watching the nubile girl in terror. But you do take on her fear as your own.

the important people in our lives leave imprints. they may die or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart

Our private tastes in books showed a hint of our secret selves.

To Embrace The Kingdom Principle Is To Live A Life Of Superiority

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.

I've gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos.

I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.'

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.