I am more lost in wonder than ever.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.

Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams

A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.

What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.

I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.

I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.

There’s a lamentation in the flutter of your lash.

I grunted, hauling the rope hand over hand. A plaintive squeak came from the pulley system with each draw, as if I had strapped some unfortunate mouse to a torture device and was twisting with glee.

youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.

I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.

The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child's heart is worth.

Somebody figured it out- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.

I've never been one to get up on a soapbox and preach. I just live my life the way I live my life.