At times I can't help going for visual comfort. Sometimes a picture fills up your head, and you try to move the actors around to make that visual statement.

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.

We are past the end of things now, but I don't want to leave.

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City.

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas - except the drone.

My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.

Government should take management lesson from private sector.

A little praise goes a great ways.

This is Graceland. Home of the most famous musician in the world.” “Michael Jackson lived here?” “No, dummy,” Carter said. “Elvis Presley.

Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.