As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.

Understand life's mysteries, - as mysteries to be lived.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

You can't legislate sobriety.

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

The thing that's interesting about wire walking is that we never get to see it other than looking up. It's like a circus thing. It's a guy on a wire.

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

Movies are movies. Some bend light through a lens. Some create moving images virtually. At the end of the day, movies are movies.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

Every line we succeed in publishing today - no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust it - is a victory wrenched from the powers of darkness.

Don’t conform. Don’t live in a small dirty pond when the ocean of life is lovingly inviting you.

When you can watch something grow that you created - it's really an amazing feeling.

i was momentarily sidetracked by the vision of Eric herding a cow into a trailer and driving it to the shoulder of the the interstate and shooing it into the trees.

You gotta be able to change worlds.

My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved.

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

All I could do is lie there and think about how much her voice changed when she asked me if she was pretty, and how much she changed when I answered.