"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out."

"Apology is only egotism wrong side out."

"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

"I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that."

"I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating."

"What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television."

"The essence of creativity is the belief that every step forward is a victory over stagnation."