"There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor."

“Maintain a spirit of peace and you will save a thousand souls.”

“While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.”

“Choose your intention carefully and then practice holding your consciousness to it, so it becomes the guiding light in your life.”

“I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head”

“I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.”

“Of course in war all madness's come out in a man. That is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.”

“It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.”

“Film is my passion. I had no money, after Human Zoo. I was completely broke. It was horrible. My film was in Berlin on opening night, but I couldn't even get to Berlin.”