And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations

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

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.

Have you asked yourself why you protect me? Are you as messed up about all this as me?

You'll never be hurt as much by being open as you have been remaining closed.

I don't do 'black music, ' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.

People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts.

Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.

However noble their purpose, we must beware of institutionalized methods that indoctrinate and regiment and fashion every Christian into a common evangelistic mold.

We don't deal in absolutes. We deal in probabilities.