I just wanted to make more of a lifestyle record instead of anything else. I wasn't trying to do anything mainstream or nothing like that. I wanted t….

Don't wallow in failure. Instead, learn from it..

The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier….

Yes, I am very prolific..

A household where a total unawareness of the world of ideas not only existed but was regarded as a matter for congratulation..

We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone..

Ah, love. A dreadful bond! And yet, so easily severed..

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older pe….

I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had..

We live in a society where everything's packaged..

You don't have to like everybody, but you have to love everybody..

[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole.... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanita….

The music has generated all the techniques I use. When I sit down to learn to play something . . . it is not because I want to master a technique. It….

With directors, some have a kind of in-built ability to just know how to work with actors and get the best out of actors, and some don't have a clue ….

Collaborate, don't dictate..

All service is the same with God..

Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you..

The idea to have both something that belongs to what we call supernatural and, at the same time, is anchored in the real world, I think it gives more….

I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me..

I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with..

The whole idea of music, from the beginning of time, was for people to be happy.