I really like to talk to people and to get their take on things.

I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.

Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.

Personally, I do movies the way I cook. I put in what I like, in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week.

Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

Essentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me.

Normally, if I'm being acknowledged it is for something in front of the camera. This puts the spotlight on the fact that there are opportunities other than just being an actor.

Directors love to do music, they've been doing that all along.

Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.

I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.

If Americans in 2100 came to see 12 meters sea-level rise as inevitable by 2200, who can even begin to fathom how the nation would respond?

Art is the god you have not seen.

People think about life from day-to-day rather than thinking about life as something that invents a new kind of tomorrow.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

We should realize there are so many things that us together rather than the things that keep us apart.

We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.