I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.

You have to believe the magic to see it.

America is old tobacco: gold and green. It's lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.

I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.

"What makes a man a man?" a friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.

When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

I don't try to define the cosmos, I know it's unknowable, but I can understand my place in the world and my place in the universe through a mixture of Taoism, Catholicism, Zen or whatever I have at hand.