We shoot double episodes in 15 days in Los Angeles.

It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another.

I had no special effects, no monsters running around, nothing blew up; those things are all things I've done so many times that they lose their allure after a while.

Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys.

I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done.

We shoot double episodes in 15 days in Los Angeles.

I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.

If people aren't in sync, things won't work out well.

I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise.

To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me.

I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience.

24 isn't like other shows, where you set the look once and you're done. The show started at midnight, then moved to a pre-dawn look, and now we're at dawn and we're warming up the day.

When I was thinking of casting this, I thought, What roles would Sellers be playing now?

Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.

It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this.

There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on.

Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away.

Because of all the concurrent stories going in 24 and its fast pace, it can be complicated in terms of the story, so I thought sound could help with the storytelling.

We use a lot of source music on some shows and none on others.

There were no previews; we made the film we wanted to make.

An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat I am sure could walk on a cloud without coming through.

On campuses, where Liberal softies still rule with an iron fist, feminism is as safe as a city with no women drivers. That is the only thing I support about Saudi Arabia, by the way.

She was a lovely blonde with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry but her gold was on her head and her pearls were in her mouth.

I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it.

I'm not a chick-flick enthusiast.

The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.

I did not want to go anywhere where I would be interim.

Historically, we have lived in a nation of energy dependence. Dependence on others for our heating and electricity, and for our fuel for transportation.

The more I talk, the more I come out and people get to know who I am and what I'm about, it's only gonna help. And if you don't like me, hey, cool. Everything in life is 50/50. I accept the good and the bad and just move on.

I was born to be a teacher, and I'll die a teacher.

We're either going to save the world or no one will be saved.

'Guardians of the Galaxy' is tongue-in-cheek and has a sense of humor about itself. But it's nothing like 'Deadpool.' 'Deadpool' is this super-bizarre thing. The best thing about it is that it's R-rated.

Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed.

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

Someone had to do it. That son of a bitch killed my President.

What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.

The stuff that made me mad 20 years ago doesn't really make me mad any more.

If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.

True humility is contentment.

There was one I did called 'The Phantom,' and we did a sequel to that called, 'Return of the Phantom.' I thought there was wonderful stuff in that. There was another show I love called 'Man Beast,' where I was the star, and I turned into a Beast; one of those things. It was great fun because I didn't let the stuntman work at all.

I'm into using acrylic, in a complicated kind of way: Making it just as good as oil paint - better, maybe. It's odd - when I started out, acrylic was for children, pretty much. It was a cheaper paint. It wasn't supposed to look very good or last very long.