Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'

I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.

I love actors.

I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.

I've been out doing signings and talking to a lot of people, and I'm just really grateful.

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.

People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.

People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.

Stars arrive on their own timetable.

Time puts things in proper perspective.

'Elizabethtown' was a movie made for all the right reasons, and people who connect with the movie really connect to it. It's not the biggest group of people ever, but I still really believe in 'Elizabethtown.' It wasn't, like, a savage blow.

I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.

I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you're going to get true eclectic music programmed.

I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.

I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.

I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.