You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.

And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time

However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years

However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second.

I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.

It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point

The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting

Before you point fingers at someone, clean them well. You better remove that log on your lens before you can see the speck on someone's own afar!

People always think something's all true.

We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.

Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.

This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.

As a drummer my job is to reproduce what made the people bop their heads when they first heard the album on the radio, or when they watched the music video.

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can.

Everything in life, I have come to conclude, is about 15 minutes too long. Except for summer - summer never begins early enough and always ends too soon.

Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'