Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.

The hardest thing for me is getting started. If I'm writing a script, really 90 per cent of it would be just walking around, climbing the walls, just trying to put the idea together. Then the final 10 per cent would be writing it.

I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.

You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.

Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.