Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.

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.

Sometimes the smallest things are so damn unforgivable. Maybe because they aren't small—they only seem that way to someone else. You never know what someone holds scared until it's too late.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

Don't let who you were talk you out of who you are becoming.

I grew up in church, and I have a wonderful family that always supported that.

I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty... love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.

A goal is a goal no matter which end it goes in. I'm pleased to get off the mark again.

Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities.