I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

There's no need to clarify my finger snap, " said Magnus. "The implication was clear in the snap itself.

If I read our story backwards, it's about how I un-broke your heart, and then we were happy until one day, you forgot about me forever.

If a man write a better book preach a better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor though he build his house in the woods the world will make a beaten path to his door.

In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine.

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.

Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.

I know I have to keep up my image. It's all about how you handle the situation.