I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.

I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs.

The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

Call it not paranoia, but caution.

Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.

I remember three years ago looking into the entrance pool of Julia’s stately domus and finding I was beautiful.

Poetry is the beauty of life.

Never get close to your enemies, you might start liking them.

I take lots of vitamins, but I don't think that's what keeps us going.

If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.

I do have a strong desire to make films that will take the audience to some uncharted places both tonally and emotionally.

I guess I dont come to the work without baggage. I have an idea of what I want my pictures to look like in my head, and if they dont match up, I find it frustrating.

It's easier for me to say what God is not, and then what God is.

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.

We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature