In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.

When wild the head-wind beat, Thy sovereign Will commanding Bring them who dare to fly To a safe landing.

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.

I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.

A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.

Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, do something for peace.

There but for the grace of God go I.

We would be a few years younger, if every day we meditated for five minutes on the meanings of the word innocence.

When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.

In opera, there is always too much singing.

My greatest joy comes from teaching.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

I don't really have a lot of interns, although I do now use Research Assistants to help me compile indexes when that is necessary.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.