Part of the discipline of being an editor is that you have to be a good audience member; your work is to be a surrogate audience member on the films you are working on.

If you are really working on something intensely, your social skills fall away and you are not fit to be brought out into public.

I am so delighted when I get to see a really good movie. In that experience the artifice of movie making, the photography or the cutting style, falls away because you are inside the movie.

manic depression is the result of the sum of repetitiveness in life and expecting a different result.

Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you should!

You're always going to face criticism, you're always going to face challenges, but those things are there to make you stronger and more committed.

To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

Most people, when they reach a certain age, let down and talk about what they used to do. Well, who gives a damn about what you used to do? It's what you're doing now.

No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.

Do not fail to learn from The pure voice of an Ever-flowing mountain stream Splashing over the rocks.

What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.

Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.

I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.