When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most movies do it and I've done it before.

When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very close to what I set out to do. And I'm super-opinionated about what I do and don't like.

I'm always a sucker for a love story.

The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever

My movies are not about being, but becoming.

It's about moments in life that are great but don't last. They don't go on, but you always have the memory and they have an effect on you. That's what I was thinking about.

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

You don't have to be loud. If you know what you want, people respect that.

Forget the audience, make what you want to see

Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

It isn't such a bad thing to always know that someone on the other side of the world cares about you.

Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

I have never been in a violent movie or television show.

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.

I want immigration reform to pass, I want people to be able to come out of the shadows.

I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around.

I'm the youngest of 12 children. And although I was the youngest, I tried to organize things in my family. When there were disputes, I tried to mediate.

Children are best corrected to the point of their understanding, not to the extent of a parent's frustration.