The most fun characters to work with are characters that are complicated.

Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.

We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!

The truth is, writing and directing are two very different jobs. They're not even remotely the same job. It took me a while, as a director, to understand that.

Ive found that if you just try to make the film you want, youll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, youre going to make really boring films.

The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

This is what I do for fun - brainstorm about monsters!

I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.

The greatest villain of all time is The Joker - he always has been, and I don't know anyone who's not going to have Heath Ledger's performance burnt into their brains for the rest of their lives.

I happen to like things that are funny and dramatic at the same time. I don't see the difference.

Everything I've ever worked on has been hard to classify.

If you doubt your sanity, is that proof?

I do. I choose you, which is to choose him and the others and t

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.

No matter what, you will be always wrong.

The Word of the Lord endures forever. The Bible is to judge us; we're not to judge the Bible.

Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

People want progress, but they don't want change.

Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.

A situation where a solution to a stakeholder problem is imposed by a government agency or the courts must be seen as a managerial failure.