Sometimes I start with lyrics - rarely - but sometimes I might have an idea for some lyrics that I wanna say. I write them down and figure out how to….

What are days for? Days are where we live..

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his exper….

And as experienced as I am, it still summons an act of bravery from me, and I like that. I like the idea of setting an example - proving that it is a….

You will never find a better friend to the United States than Australia..

The Palace is a good theater, you can see from everywhere..

I don't know what it's like to be Jewish, but I suspect there is some aspect of that: being Jewish is the thing that bonds you as opposed to being Je….

The idea of liberalism has to be recreated. In the course of time it has lost so much of its clarity and attraction that it first has to rise like a ….

My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classi….

I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea! [Reputed to have been a remark made to the head of his department at C….

I was always really fascinated with animation, but just in a way all kids are with watching Disney movies and all that, but I had no idea how animati….

It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human being might read your wor….

I don't think you can be a good musician if you just listen to rap, or just the [type of music] you do. You gotta be open to other ideas..

Television is interesting, in that the pace is quicker and you can see your work more quickly than with movies. And then, with the added social media….

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them..

I'm proposing to you that photography is a language on its own, which is that when you look at images you do derive ideas; and I'm also proposing to ….

I've been a film geek since I was a little kid and to start with an idea and then get a stack of papers with words on it called a script, then storyb….

I'm not a great beauty. That's not me..

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing..

I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place..

It's not that I'm anti-religion. I'm anti any religion that doesn't practice the core, which is love..