Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.

Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.

I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.

I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.

I want to make a film about a factory worker.

I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.

I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.

The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.

Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.

I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

The truth will only be told over a career.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

At some point youre no longer growing up youre aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly.

Filmmakers are going to make films just like painters are going to paint.

As you get older, you want less from the world; you just want to experience it. Any barriers to feeling emotions get dismantled. And ordinary things become beautifully poetic.

There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

DJs and people in the street know what they like.

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

We dominated Survivor - there is no way we would not dominate that, too. I can see it already, us making deals with people. That's the best part, and with the Race, it would be even more fun because I've got a lot of tricks up my sleeve.

I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.

We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference.

My goal is, of course, for this show to do well, and I would love it if people liked it.

I hate wasting people's time.

Religions get lost as people do.

I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in.

That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before.