Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.

I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating...anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you.

You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

What are the stories you want people to tell about you?

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.

Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.

The truth is not what is told, the truth is hidden beneath several layers of lies what is claimed to be truth. There is only ultimate truth and it it's difficult to uncover it.

Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!

I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.

It (Twitter) closes the six degrees of separation to one degree of separation

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth.

There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.

Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; that's why more money doesn't make you rich - assets make you rich.