Of course, I'm no dummy.

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

There’s a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.

I remember being taught in school that you would underline things that you liked. I remember just underlining everything as a kid, thinking, 'This has all gotta be important!' I would just underline the whole thing!

It's so hard to do anything that doesn't owe some kind of debt to what Stanley Kubrick did with music in movies. Inevitably, you're going to end up doing something that he's probably already done before. It always seem like we're falling behind whatever he came up with. "Singin' in the Rain" (1952) in "A Clockwork Orange" (1971) - that was the first time I became so aware of music in movies. So no matter how hard you try to do something new, you're always following behind.

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.