Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment.

The beautiful moment sits very close to the horrific one.

The lies are in the dialogue, the truth is in the visuals.

I'm 51. So I'm just saying, 30 years from now you're going to have a different outlook. That's what a midlife crisis is.

I don't dislike everything I do. Especially with a film, you don't have an easy relationship with it when it's done because it's been your life.

I like to have a project. I live to have something to waste my energy on, something to think about. To figure out like a puzzle.

Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.

I'm drawn to people that have tasks to do.

I don't have to be making something to feel like life has value.

I'm looking at the window and can't understand why there are six hundred thousand SUVs here in this little town. No one can even move. Why doesn't everyone just get out and walk?

I'm not miserable, but I can't not be angry.

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

as you think, so is your reality

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

Winning Wimbledon, I can't get my head around that. I still can't believe it's happened.

It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.

When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them in if it helps the general composition.

Facts speak louder than statistics.

Being in Europe had helped me unlearn some of what I'd been taught or unconsciously believed.

It's not every day you do something that's never been done before.

Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.