The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting

And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time

However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years

However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second.

I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.

It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.

Maybe, peace was preferable to pleasure. Maybe, peace is one’s first love.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

I didn't change. The Democratic Party slid to the Left from right under me.

Best friend my well-spring in the wilderness!

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.

If you're living your life in fear, then you're just not living.

The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves.

The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued.