Beauty doesn't have anything to do with prettiness. Beauty has to do with something else; it gets into an area where words can't go.

Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea.

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.

Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It's not about how effective you are it's about how you are effective.

My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.

Sometimes other people have better ideas.

It's interesting that there are places that words can't get to.

My education was an education by movies.

Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.

You are never defeated in life, you are only a learner.

Men should be what they seem.

It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.

If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm.(page 10)

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

A scatterbrain is one who never has an unspoken thought.

When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.

You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking.

The security of faith does not make us motionless or close us off, but sends us forth to bear witness and to dialogue with all people.