A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. Had I not been a therapist, I would have been an efficiency expert.

The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.

I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!

The most rewarding thing of my success has been the ability to use my music for many different causes that have become important to me.

You know what I learned about Hawaiians? They're just blown up Mexicans!

In the end, this world will go under because of the stupidity of people.

To experience spiritual victory, you must depend on God's resources.

In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.