American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

I think people are universal.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and betrayals.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.

Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.

The only thing that I could think of to do was to be an actress.

I'm drinking doubles now that you're running around single again.