"Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity."

“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”

Source : "Tom Waits: A Raspy Voice Heads To The Hall Of Fame". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 21, 2002.

“I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.”

“Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?”

“We'll dive into the earth together. And if one day a wild flower finds water and springs up from that piece of earth, its stem will have two blooms for sure: one will be you, the other me.”

“Sometimes I think that everyone has a tragedy waiting for them, that the people buying milk in their pajamas or picking their noses at stoplights could be only moments away from disaster. That everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a moment when it will become extraordinary - a single encounter after which everything that really matters will happen.”

“But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know, if you go out and you overhear a conversation or you have a thought, you have a receptacle to go home and say, 'Oh, this would be great in this script.' Your antenna's out in a different way, and I love that time.”

“I'm just taking one match at a time.”

“Directing Skyfall was one of the best experiences of my professional life, but I have theatre and other commitments, including productions of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and King Lear, that need my complete focus over the next year and beyond.”

Source : "Sam Mendes Won't Direct Bond 24". Interview with Phil De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. March 6, 2013.