Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, "I loved you last night." And they go, "What about the week before?" They immediately worry.

I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word "lavish" and everything being magnificent.

A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.

I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

Debt is great source of inner unhappiness.

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

Remove whatever you no longer need in your life, to make room for what you do need in your life.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.

To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.

If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.

The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.