I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet a medium. In a way we are just the medium.

But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot what movies are not hot what the budget of this movie might be.

I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.

When I was a kid going into the movies you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks and small budget movies have no perks but what is the driving force of course is the script and your part in it.

The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.

Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.

I think that money spoils most things once it becomes the primary motivating force.

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance principles and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.