It becomes pretty crystal clear once you watch that first assembly [movie cut] the things that are just grinding it to a halt, so to speak, or slowing it down, or getting in the way, yeah.

I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.

Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.

It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.

You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.

I just thinks it's interesting what it takes an actor to find their characters through the wardrobe, or the hair, or the way a character walks.

You're never nice to your friends. You're nice to people you don't like!

I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.

For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.

Information gently but relentlessly drizzles down on us in an invisible, impalpable electric rain.

You survived the abuse, you’re going to survive the recovery.

The making of adaptable, curious, open, questioning people has nothing to do with vocational training and everything to do with humanistic and scientific studies.

True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the urge strikes.

History is a lie commonly agreed upon.

Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies.

When you're married, it's one person. That's one more than a monk. It's not that different.

I think I'd like to see CDs disappear. Too much plastic crap lying around. If I want some music these days, I'm gonna either get as MP3s or on vinyl.

What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*