We're all going to hell for the songs we sing.

There's a level of immersion that is perfect and there's a level that, for my taste, starts to actually exceed what the screen can provide. At that point, you're kind of overexceeding yourself.

The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

The funny thing about me is I move from genre to genre, but I essentially shoot all the movies the same way.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

One of my favourite movies is Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment.' It's shot in super wide screen, and it's beautiful.

The idea of devoting two years of my life to making a corporate product that looks and smells and tastes like a lot of other things out there with just a different trademark character is a bore.

I'm really very lucky. I get to do an awful lot. I've been able to make an incredibly wide range of movies and work with an incredible array of people.

We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.

If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way.

Just because your leg might heal doesn't mean it doesn't feel broken. It doesn't mean that a car hitting your body doesn't hurt like the same it would hurt if a car hit your body.

The Five C's of Coaching: 1- Clarity 2- Communication3- Collaboration 4- Commitment 5- Culture

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

It didn’t matter, anyway. There was only one thing she could ask for, in the end, only one real choice. She raised her eyes to the Angel’s. "Jace," she said.

Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment.

A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell

How can you veto an idea you haven't heard?

Nobody can hide their birthdays anymore, so there's no point in lying.

It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.

We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.

At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.