You can either watch TV or you can make TV.

I've never watched reality shows, except for the Great British Bake Off, which is magnificent.

The way a musical can make us feel is unlike anything else, in song and particularly in dance. I think people fly through plate-glass windows when they get shot because movies don't have dance scenes any more. This is what we do instead.

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.

Now there’s us, staking out our piece of cinematic turf (might be small but it’s ours). And the music has to fit the vision as specifically as it did for [Star Wars and The Matrix.] OUR music comes from THEIR music, this scrappled bunch. It is spare, intimate, mournful and indefatigable.