Quotes

I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.

I love the ending of 'The Wrestler.'

I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.

When I like something, I love it, but then I'll let it go completely.

Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.

What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?

I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

I loved films of the '70s with those antihero protagonists who you don't know if you can get behind because their behavior is really questionable.

Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.

There's a Nina Simone record that I love, 'Live at Vine Street,' and she sings flat on it. I can imagine she might've told the record label, 'Oh, God, you're not releasing that!' But I'm glad they did.

When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the writing the songs, the playing the songs and the sharing and the recording and experimenting. It was exciting. Then, this thing called success came, and something happened at some point where I became disenchanted, and I lost the innocence.

Humans pull together in an odd way when they're in the wilderness. It's astonishing how few people litter and how much they help one another. Indeed, the smartphone app to navigate the Pacific Crest Trail, Halfmile, is a labor of love by hikers who make it available as a free download.

Everything that scared me is losing people I love, and everyone that I really love, as it relates to females, I've lost. So what it's made me be is the animal that I am because I don't want to sit down and think about the things that are hurting me, but, you know.

I love music, but the people in the music don't wanna work.

Two shows at once is crazy, but I love it.

Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.

I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of years. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and sick-rooms, being read to by various relatives, and I learned to associate books with love and attention.

I love collaborating with different people.

I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.

A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.

I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.

I will miss my pal Dominick Dunne. I am sure his funeral will be just the sort of event he would have loved. Based on who will be there, I am sure he wishes he could have been there to cover it.

As millions of people know, one of the great pleasures of walking in areas of the uplands managed for grouse is to see and hear large numbers of curlew, lapwing and golden plover - all ground-nesting birds largely absent or in rapidly declining numbers elsewhere.

I really love the TV thing because it's a little of the best of all worlds. You have a sense of a family and work with the same people over the seasons.