Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

Life may look to be made up of incredible coincidences. One problem. I don’t believe in coincidences. I believe in twists of fate.

I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring.

I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded.

Only bugs can truly appreciate the beauty of flowers.

I'd like to have seen Tony Morley left on as a down-and-out winger.

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

Fidel Castro is loved down into the children. The Revolution won't die!

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.

Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.