I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.

Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.

I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

When wiggling through a holethe world looks different thanwhen scrubbed clean by the wiggleand looking back.

The human race, it seems, is run faster than the speed of life.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

When we criticize people, their consciences console them. When we love them, their consciences indict them.

On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.

If you're going into stand-up, you're hyper-analyzing the world and asking as many questions about a thing as you possibly can so you can figure out the ultimate nature of that thing.

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.

Dig deeply into the spring of love and partake of it. The supply is infinite.

I'm a registered conservative.