And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.

Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.

The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.

Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.

Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.

What happens when you're in a crash is you join a crash club, and you talk endlessly about your crash because you don't want to bore your friends with it. And they've heard about the crash so many times.

I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.