When I grew up what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself in a sense in the mid 1960s really when I first heard composers like Terry Riley and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

Yeah I've been interested in music since I was a teenager always writing songs.

As a boy I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music and you provide the silence.

When I was a teenager I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

Develop interest in life as you see it in people things literature music - the world is so rich simply throbbing with rich treasures beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.

It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests I forget to worry.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

I've always been interested in making movies.

Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done that since the beginning. So that's not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet.

I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky briefly in the '90s and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped.

All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.

Everybody gets typecast in movies but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look so you have to fight that. If producers had their way I'd only be in action films but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

I've never been interested in action movies. Definitely not interested in sci-fi.

I've seen little pieces of 'Interview with a Vampire' when it was on TV but I kind of always go yuck! I don't watch R-rated movies so that really cuts down on a lot of the horror.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies which I felt there was a lack of.