In a weird way, it's much easier, when I don't have to worry about being a writer, to just worry about the director job, which is really fun.

Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.

We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!

The truth is, writing and directing are two very different jobs. They're not even remotely the same job. It took me a while, as a director, to understand that.

Ive found that if you just try to make the film you want, youll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, youre going to make really boring films.

The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

This is what I do for fun - brainstorm about monsters!

I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.

The greatest villain of all time is The Joker - he always has been, and I don't know anyone who's not going to have Heath Ledger's performance burnt into their brains for the rest of their lives.

I happen to like things that are funny and dramatic at the same time. I don't see the difference.

Everything I've ever worked on has been hard to classify.

My soule, poore soule thou talkes of things/ Thou knowest not what, my soule hath sliver wings, / That mounts me up unto the highest heavens.

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

I could not, as my father's daughter, remain indifferent to all that was going on.

The mirror can lie. It doesn’t show you what’s inside.

But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.

The supreme attainment of human life is divine bliss. Divine bliss is the nature of the Self.

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

It is all here. You make the choice.

First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.

If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.