Filmmaking is a real craft.

You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.

The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.

When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

You can't write something to please someone.

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

When we practice self-compassion in our lives, we are compelled to be more understanding and accepting toward ourselves.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.

I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.

there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.

How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!