I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.

Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.

So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

I'd love to direct commercials on Caribbean beacheswith luscious women rubbing on suntan lotion, but all I get arethese documentary-type things.

I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.

I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.

The word love has always tasted like the scent of fresh ink and soft paper to me. Like a newly written poem.

Any thing is interesting if you can communicate it. There are no unimportant subjects for the enlivened mind.

Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with existing school systems.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

Hell, I'm going to play pro basketball. I'm going to maybe be famous. I'm going to write books.

The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.

Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.

Yes, Jenna, I love you with all my heart. And with my atoms and molecules and electrons and whatever further breakdown you require.