Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?

I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.

Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves.

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

If something bad happened just do this 3 things.First inhale second exhale and third accept that it happened.

Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion.

Government has the power to help improve well-being

Being offended by things is the world's big hobby at the moment. It's almost taken over from wearing goatee beards.

In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.

I just see a huge train wreck coming down. You and I have discussed this many times, and I don't see any results yet.

My first car was a 1986 Toyota pickup.

My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

Don't they give you happy pills in this place?