Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.

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.

Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up.

The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.

Night clubs scare me. They're dark and they stink and they're dangerous and everybody's drunk.

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

I try not to respond with a pep talk, such as, "Everyone has talent, just try, you'll see." I skirt those kinds of answers.

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

People who type with their iPhones on loud are barbarians and probably killers.

And as this round (ring) is nowhere found to flaw, or else to sever. So let our love as endless prove and pure as gold forever.