I think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to a piece of music, I think our implicit hope is that we're going to find it beautiful, or at least emotional, on some level.

I'm always a little unnerved when I see a show that's set in the past that implies in any way that things were nicer then.

Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked.

The traditional models for success are just also disappearing.

[I watch] Fincher, Spielberg, Cameron, McTiernan. Just people who are good at staging action. I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.

You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

The key is, if youre not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.