Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

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.

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.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

I call architecture frozen music.

I started dancing before I could talk. Other babies learn to stand and then walk - I just danced.

Don't surrender to the dying light; don't take it lying down.

I've been lucky enough to go back and forth.

It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

I was always interested in dance as a creative art and traditionally dance is taught as an interpretive art.

Science is as yet in its infancy, and we can foretell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is the thing that shall be; that no beliefs, no values, no institutions are safe.

If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.