The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

I write plays and movies I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.

A story should have a beginning a middle and an end but not necessarily in that order.

In order to succeed we must first believe that we can.

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning you throw on your suspenders and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand usually and sing into a tape recorder.

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

In order to have good fried chicken you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator seasoned that morning and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things or more money in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

When I was little we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7 my mom kicked my dad out and then in order to feed us five kids she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow raised chickens pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.

I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film TV theatre in order to make it accessible to people.

My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side.

Men are born with two eyes but with one tongue in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think because thinking is such hard work.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which left unchecked can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.

I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.

You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.