I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.

I just make whatever music I want. It's my obsession, and it's very fulfilling.

So many times I've done a CD, and then the week after I record it, I've got this new tagline that's killer. And it makes the whole bit better. It happens all the time. But that's just the process of...

Regardless of the medium, be it television or feature or documentary, I'm not gonna distinguish and worry about my particular canon, whatever that means.

At any given time I'm listening to Cory Branan, Leonna Naess, Eve 6, the King's Noyse, Sean Paul, Green Day, the BoDeans, Buddy Holly, Nowell Sing We Clear... the list goes on. But I rarely listen to...

I think every artist, producer, believe's that it's going to happen at some point and time. You never want to just hear that you not gonna make it.

I find inspiration for my works of art in my studio and in the squared circle from all sorts of places.

For me, food and music are very similar in that you create, you spend a lot of time making something, and it only lasts a few seconds or a few minutes.

Writers are rememberers.

I'd be absolutely happy to go back and make a smaller picture. I never want my choices to be dictated by budget. That's one of the reasons why I take so much pride in being able to make films for $2...

Never try to copy other writers, and never try to have a formula. It has to come from your heart and soul.

I always find another version of myself in each of my films.

I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally.

It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.

I don't know how anyone ever makes a good movie. It's a miracle every time.

I never had a particular brand of comedy, nor did I follow a particular style.

I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!

I like to make money; I like to have nice things. But I love to act; I love to tell stories.

Nobody should force you to do a bad piece of work in your whole life - no client, no creative director, nobody. The job isn't to please the client; the job is to produce something for the client that...

Some writers like to work in other places like coffee shops, but I can't - I'd end up people-watching. And if I were at a bookstore, I'd be reading. Sometimes I have some music on, but usually I like...

I have a friend who calls me the queen of the nightmares because I've always had really bad nightmares. I keep a notebook by the side of my bed, so I'll wake up in the night from a bad dream, and my...

I would feel weird if I wasn't able to be longwinded, or have information-overload on our songs.

I feel sorry for kids these days. They get so much homework. Remember the days when we put a belt around our two books and carried them home? Now they're dragging a suitcase. They have school all day,...

I mean, we're - if I may say so - we're experts at using materials and processes in ways for which they were never intended.

I can tell you as a fact that if you'd asked anyone in Hollywood one year before 'Pirates of the Caribbean' had come out, they'd have told you the pirate movie was a dead genre. And it's not that it's...

Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.

Anyway, the title The War of the Insect Gods came before we had that ending, before we knew they had become gods. That we knew the evolutionary cycle they went through. Before we even knew anything...

My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!

When you're improvising, you connect with people in a way you don't in normal life, strangely.