If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

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.

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

You're not alone Together we stand I'll be by your side, you know I'll take your hand When it gets cold And it feels like the end There's no place to go You know I won't give in

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

You can always look back on having a good defensive day, even if you didn't do anything offensively. You won the game and you contributed.

The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

Credit markets were originally created to serve human needs; to provide businesses and individuals with capital to start or expand businesses or fulfill other financial needs.

You can look at a slum or a peasant village, but it is only by entering into the world - by living in it -that you begin to understand what it is like to be powerless, to be like Christ.

A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.

Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.