A lot of people go to the movies wanting the movie to be about feelings, and it's really not about that. Or rather it's about feelings in the abstract.

I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating...anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you.

You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

What are the stories you want people to tell about you?

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

Be Still My Heart while God is Healing me inside

If you work on yourself intellectually, you will be able to realize your potential

Every person has felt pain, some deeper than others, some pain inmeasurable It is a choice to reframe that pain as power to create change~bns

I'm tired of entirely new things, " Tremaine said. "I don't understand most of the old things yet.

Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

I walked into the main entrance of the White House, and I said to myself, "This is sort of amazing."

You go ahead, stand still, or go backwards in life. Your objective should be to go ahead.

Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.