Directing is like guitar playing. That's a unique mind-set and talent, unto itself. I like the idea of putting everything together to make a great movie.

I never want to draw attention to myself, but that's all I do.

Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion.

When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster.

Directing is like guitar playing. That's a unique mind-set and talent, unto itself. I like the idea of putting everything together to make a great movie.