Americans are hidden dragons to me.

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.

A person fully in the Self is formless, birth less and deathless. He is inside, outside and above everything that is known. In purity he is absolute and in spirit he is eternal.

My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about... life being brilliant.

It's important, when going after a goal, to never lose sight of the integrity of the journey.

A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none.

Whether it's friendship or love. The essence of is two people trying to share something. When I think of how I met my best friends, it was always like love at first sight.

I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

I do not believe in a personal God.

I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?