It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

Knowing trees I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass I can appreciate persistence.

We do not see nature with our eyes but with our understandings and our hearts.

Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.

I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand and they're very nice. At the same time I've met people whose music I've loved and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in.

I just want to make my music and I want it to stand on its own.

People often complain that music is too ambiguous that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear whereas everyone understands words. With me it is exactly the opposite and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

On the other hand what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons you understand but the ghosts.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

But you know if you live an affluent lifestyle there are all types of trappings that are there that you have to be cognizant of and you've got to try and communicate freely and gain understanding about and then keep moving on because you know sometimes lifestyles are chosen for us as opposed to us choosing them.

I had the standard movie geek childhood because for as long as I can remember all I wanted to do was make movies.

I want people to think about movies and how we watch them. Let them know it's okay to question the structure or how we're sometimes duped into a false sense of normalcy. Most of all I want people to question the old standard practices of 'This is how the structure of something should work ' or 'This is how a character must behave.'

Maybe when I stop making movies I'll understand my work better.

When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks' I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then but not in a productive way.

I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.

Look at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

It's difficult to do a genre film well and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be they get the throwback of it.

I was a very interested arts student I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies to me it's all art.

I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

I want to be in movies that stand the test of time.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

I had done some flimflam movies but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.