Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.

There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

It's an important part of being a member of society to know what's happening in the world and to know where you fall in it and what you can do about it.

When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again.

I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.

If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And your movie does that.

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

You only have so much time in life so everything you do needs to mean something to you.

You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality.

The apartments are made for eels.

I don't really put trophies out. I don't keep trophies around my apartment.

Inner beauty, warm-heartedness and compassion, is what brings about peace of mind.

We didn’t cause the apocalypse…”“But we were too dumb to see it, ” she snaps. “That was our mistake.

Try to relax. Sometimes the best offense is a good defense.

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

Success is best when it is shared.

Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

One of the many interesting challenges nature presents us is its apparent disinterest in maintaining the order humans crave.

Go take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man , and What men live by . When thou hast learnt these things, thou shalt return to heaven.

It's the best honor when someone wants to use as their professional title the name of a character that you portrayed.