A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.

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.

Often is the worst of you that makes the best of you

He who believes not in your quest should not sail with you, so that he won't sink your ship.

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.

Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds.

A bold attitude is what true leaders use to crash down failure before they venture with their visions!

Rejection is good for the soul.

I am the punishment of God. If you have not committed sins then God wouldn't have sent me.

You should only be doing the thing that makes you happy. Not just surface happy.

When I was 15, a cabdriver asked me if I was Paul McCartney's daughter.

The society, is, a dishwasher, where all the water, is, dead chipmunk blood. God I'm brilliant.