Barton Fink is just too self-important as an artist to get much sympathy.

Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.

We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes.

The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.

It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.

I was always interested in movies the way everyone is interested. That is, I liked to go to the movies

There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?

When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it.

When people don't understand the meaning of freedom in their lives, they will continue to live as though they're still oppressed.

There is never a need to justify anything to others, only yourself.

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.

There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.

Whenever we wake up from a horrible nightmare, we don't immediately scream out of happiness.It takes a while to feel so safe and so good.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.