I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them more user-friendly and efficient.

But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.

There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker

The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.

You don’t have to wait for a storm to pass to paint your own rainbow.

he threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it

I don't spend a lot of time working if I can help it.

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

If I wasn't a writer, I would be depressed.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline.

Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.

I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.

I try to take what's given to me and then mold it to be a better football player.