Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.

I don't think any of us are normal people.

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.

The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.

You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song.

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself.

God did not ordain that the church should drift aimlessly in the seas of uncertainty without compass, captain, or crew.

He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.

I really do enjoy making movies and I try to test myself on occasion with some different stuff.

We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.

i drink caffeine" she said calmly "lot's of it gives you pep

No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out at tremendous speed- to go nowhere.

Nuclear power must be dealt with irrationally. . . . Nuclear plants are carcinogens. Let's get that story out. . . . Their lies will catch up to them. We need endless Chernobyl reminders.

My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.

Are people born wicked, or is wickedness trust upon them?

What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.