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I would rather impress you with my storytelling than with the size of my waist and my hips.
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
I'm big on story structure. I studied with John Truby, who mapped out story by means of moral wants and needs, and that's what I do. Hey, so does John Irving.
Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.
I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.
I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.
The thing I don't want to do as a film composer is reiterate. I prefer to subtextualize or to underline rather than to say, 'This is what you should be feeling.'
I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
