I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

Everyone in the movie industry wants to win an Oscar. I don't think that's why you make movies. But winning an Oscar is not just about making a great movie, unfortunately. It's also having a good Oscar campaign.

I don't think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It's not necessarily some state of grace.

People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking!

Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.

Writing a song is like - you're writing a song all the time. It's just when it pops out. It's been there all the time. It's not something that suddenly you do it. It's always there. Suddenly, it's in the right mixture inside you to come out. Usually when you're writing on the piano or a guitar, you don't write in lyrics, on their own. To me it's very boring.

You don't have to bathe every day to look clean. It's just an illusion.