For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

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.

Simbol, huruf dan angka adalah alat, sedangkan gagasan adalah roh sebuah tulisan.

Outer beauty pleases the EYE. Inner beauty captivates the HEART.

You don't just become something in life. You evolve and grow

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.

make away out of no way

I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.

Comfort me from wherever you are–alone, we are quickly worn out; if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you. Could it be that even from afar we offer each other a gentle breath?

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

Don’t you have a girlfriend or family you’d rather be with? (Geary) Only Solin, and honestly, he’s not this soft. Even if he was, it’d be gross. (Arik)