When I was growing up, we always had music playing in our household. I enjoy spending time with my father singing.

When you begin to do what matters most to you, you let go of preconceived notions of who you are which have been fostered by others and start creating the person you most want to be.

There's no scenario in which I wouldn't want my entire family at a wedding.

Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.

I tend to write poetry that is rich in data of various sorts. The lyric poem isn't perfectly suited to accommodating such data, so I've had to find new ways to say everything that I want to say.

I'm incredibly naive.

A unitary urbanism — the synthesis of art and technology that we call for — must be constructed according to certain new values of life, values which now need to be distinguished and disseminated.

I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.

We have to sell conservatism to non-conservatives. We have to take our principles and apply them to problems and go sell them to people. We need to show that we have better ideas.

Ultimately I'm making movies because of the producers and I don't want to disappoint my producer. It's always a tough balance to figure out how far I listen to them though.

Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.