Hamlet at 70: "To sleep, perchance to dream. To awaken, perchance to go to the bathroom. "
The talent is in the choices.
Time goes on. So whatever you're going to do, do it. Do it now. Don't wait.
Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.
You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.
I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it's very simple and honest and contained. You don't need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that's another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little.
When you love someone you gotta trust them, there's no other way. You gotta give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point?
I went to art school and interned at DC, and then did the band. When that stuff comes up, you've gotta embrace it and run with it for as long as you can, and I did. I did that for as long as I felt I could.
Leave the atom alone.
I listen to music two ways: As a person, you have an instinctive, personal, emotional response. But as a music supervisor, you have a secondary response, which is, 'Will this sit well under dialogue?' 'Can people die to this?' 'Can people kiss to this?
Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.