In The Land Of Ideas, You Are

In Nature, If A Cell Gets Too Big, It Divides. You Can't Come Up With A Set Of Rules That's Going To Work For 350 Million People. You're Just Not.

I've Found Through Experience That I'm Only Good When I'm Writing Something That, In Essence, Only I Could Write. The Times I've Written For Hire, For Other People, I Don't Think I've Done Very Well.

I Think The Feeling That We're Going To Work Together Again Usually Starts To Come Up Before The First Project's Even Done. The Black Keys And I Have Already Talked About Starting On Something New.

Truth And Facts Have To Trump Partisanship. There Has To Be Something That's True Regardless Of What Your Angle Is On It.

I've Tried To Get Better About Weighing What I Think The Accessibility Of An Idea Is Against The Cost Of Executing It. I've Tried To Be Smarter About That, Because If You're Not Smart About That, You're Going To Be Unemployed. But I'm Still Mystified About What Works For People. And I'm Not Talking About My Movies, I'm Talking In General. I'm Mystified By The Stuff That Doesn't Work. I'm Mystified By What's Going On In The Critical Side, Too.