It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies then yes that's true big-time success. If not it's much ado about nothing.

So yes there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

I love making movies but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.

I watch movies occasionally and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

By the way movies are like sporting events in that you're as good as the movie you're in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token you can do five movies a year and if they're dreck it's nothing.

Besides the fact that I make movies there's nothing interesting about my life at all unfortunately.

I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.

I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

As far as writing I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or 'Dog Day Afternoon' or 'The Graduate.' You watch one of those and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies it makes you think If that counts I certainly could write.

I always leave that for other people to decide because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.