For groups like the Rolling Stones names like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf were exotic inspirations. For Siegel-Schwall they were the guys that played with them on 43rd Street.

In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.

We are only allowed to livedue to some colossal misunderstanding.

I haven't done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you're most recently famed for, so I'm careful of not repeating myself.

The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.

Everyone has problems. When you think you want to end your life, maybe you could be there for someone else and can learn something.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

I'm a very private person, and I don't want to share stuff with anyone.

All my movies are achingly personal.

Love is the wild card of existence.

Sometimes you have to go outside your field of study to find the right people.

As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country's airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero.