I'm not really interested in the exploding car or endless sort of dystopian fantasies and superheroes. None of that... that doesn't interest me very much.

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

There are movies I've made that I think no celebrations are in order.

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.

The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.

We were extremely prescient in that we predicted the Soviet coup before it happened. That was kind of amazing.

No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.