All I can do is try to do the best work I can. I need to work, I like to work... although I complain about it, but I do like it - and I just need to make the best film I can.

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.

VITA BREVIS A lifetimeis morethansufficiently longfor people to get what there is of itwrong.

...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath...

Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.

Death is not the problem; waiting around for it is.

I actually love technology. I worked for 18 years as systems analyst in technology.

I embraced a cloud but when I soared it rained.

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

Self abuse is anti-social, aggression still natural.

Facebook is a really exciting place trying to do something really important that I really believe in. And it matters.

When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let's be frank about it, it is enslavement.