The biggest challenge was to make sure that we are looking at things honestly and truthfully. We weren't making an apologist film. That was the tough….

Truth implies meaning..

I'm a free agent. I want the major-label budget for my next album, but I'm too big for the label to pay me. I don't want to be controlled, to be wate….

Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why..

An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it..

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words..

I'm always geeking out about something..

The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond..

But it was an ending..

It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively..

Celebrities say the darnedest things..

This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting..

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas..

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film..

Unless you go forward then you are going back..

Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so..

Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since..

'Sugarland Express' was pretty amazing..

I will admit, it's so intoxicating working with Steve Carrell. Creatively and professionally..

The power of a good film is to engage you and draw you into its world..

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music..