Most screen violence is tedious.

I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.

I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.

What I want people to recognize is that we have to keep working together and take charge because we all have the same story.

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me

I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?