My favorite films, I would put my answering machine up to the television set and hit record. I'd tape my favorite movies and then I could go back and listen to them again. I only had the soundtrack, I didn't have the visuals. But I think it made me really pay attention to the soundtracks.

When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

We've turned down multi million dollar films, simply because we liked the film better. We have the luxury to do so - we have projects that make the money, and others that we do for love.

Definitely, in any teaching situation, there are the clueless students; then there are the ones who get it a little quicker.

The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.

The private-public partnership models that have been made in the area of health - we really need to adopt those in the area of education.

At the end of the day, things don't get better unless you continue to invest in your workforce. And I've not heard any Republican talk about education and the investment in the future workforce.