Learn from the masters, learn from your contemporaries. Always try to update yourself..

Kids are great in that they keep you on your toes. They're like a puzzle... in a blender, haha. You have to take the pieces out and try to put it tog….

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere..

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the ….

You can't know about marriage until you try it..

Instead of trying to specify a system in full detail, specify it only somewhat. You can then ride on the dynamics of the system in the direction you ….

Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those habits, break t….

Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise.

The noir universe hates do-gooders so it tries to pound them and punish them..

There's no point in being scared of just trying..

In the beginning, everything was even money..

I take all of my music seriously and personally..

Producers don't like the director who ignores their opinion - but I always try not to be the nicest person when making a movie. It's easy to do that.….

Hillary Clinton has been portrayed as robotic, someone who is trying to approximate real human emotion..

I get really restless if I'm not working. I generate or try to generate my own stuff. I'm constantly on the prowl for working with the people I love ….

I became friends on a social basis with a music professor (Dr. Alan Stein) who took a real interest in my work. He encouraged me in countless differe….

People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote..

I care very much about all of my characters, recurring or not. I try to imagine something about that person beyond his or her physical appearance. Af….

He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going t….

Except I didn't say eff.

It's always about the music, never about anything else..