The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper….

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales..

I tended to favour the piano over the guitar because it stays in one place, which is what I like to do..

Fear dims when you learn things..

Beauty exists where you least expect to find it..

You dig in and you find something..

Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day..

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!.

I am unable to rule anything out..

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement f….

The only thing hard about being an actor is being out of work. So, when you get a job - that part ain't hard at all..

In America, we have lost millions of decent-paying jobs. That has got to end..

I didn't start playing piano until I was 18..

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify….

I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of w….

Either you understand or you don't, and that is that..

When we get to the future, I'll decide the future..

I ALWAYS LIKED MR STALIN..

'Friends' was a magical thing, and no one's going to ever have anything like that again..

We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work..

I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you'd see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me, with a painted-on mustache. I was about ….