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 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.

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.

To make a movie about mayhem, sometimes you have to go to mayhem.

It's about "Moments, " not Milestones.

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

I don't think of the ashram world as being any more spiritual than the corporate world.

The sea is the most beautiful face in our universe.

Truth usually stammers at first.

Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.

The three eldest children of Necessity: God, the World and love.

One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again.

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.