You can't get good at anything unless you do it day in and day out, over and over.

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

The art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there.There's only the thing and what the thing needs to be.

The brief flashbacks are sun-kissed, summery and optimistic. It's the only place in the movie you will see red, yellow, orange, or any vibrant colors.

We all get outraged by things and there are things that make us angry and maybe for a while we get angry enough to actually go do something about it.

The best set was probably 'Bloody Sunday.' We had no money for extras and gambled on months of outreach to persuade the people of Derry to turn out and march for us on one single afternoon. And they did. In their tens of thousands. Seeing them march, their patience and their dignity and their commitment, I knew the movie would have a quality of truth.

A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you. So it does sometimes turn into a situation where you're saying to the person you're working with, "Well, what do you want?" But then there are other times when I work with people and they'll turn to me and say, "How do you want to do this?" And that's actually when I work best.