When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

We are treated exactly the way we expect to be treated by the world and its people.

Like Desserts, books come in all kinds of tasty treats!

Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'

The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta.

Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It's when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous.

I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.

I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.

The Web makes people hypocritical, it encourages to take pseudonymes

The fear factor was my greatest challenge with The Whispering Town. How could I portray danger without really frightening the youngest readers and without diluting the story?

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.