I've always been reasonably fatalistic..

I had a Vincent van Gogh, a small Provençal landscape. We sold it. If you're going to have a van Gogh it should be a really good van Gogh..

One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself..

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct..

I pretty much work all the time..

I love IMAX when it works right..

I tell, therefore you are..

I'm a micro-celebrity, about as small a celebrity as you can be..

Most of the things that I learn are from the women in my life..

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden..

I have very strict rules in my head that seem to me to be the way things should sound..

I tasted freedom and I really liked it..

Twitter! Never have lives been less lived and more chronicled!.

Success feeds confidence..

But let the good prevail..

We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we?.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation..

Life lends itself to fear..

I don’t approve of religion..

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously..

Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right..