Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.

We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of our lives preparing ourselves to let it go.

Nature is a series of murders.

Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.

I love when a director says, "I don't know."

Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.

The bigger the budget, the more trouble there is.

It seems like there'd be no Donald Trump without the internet, first of all. He's a tweeter, which is basically just a bullhorn.

I spent a lot of time with making sure everyone felt wanted.

I love British female directors lately.

I'm going to go wherever I'm needed.

I just love working hard. I love being part of a team I love working toward a common goal.

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

So, if you haven't picked up some tips during an apprenticeship like that, you shouldn't be directing. It doesn't mean you can do it, but it loads you up with information.

Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.

If your intelligence and your luck are on your side, you don't need angels!

The prosecutor have a problem distinguishing from megabits and megabytes.