I am not a fan of westerns particularly.

You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.

I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

No, but it’s not because I’m getting older that I’m trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I’m getting.

But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.

When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.

I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.

She felt as buoyantly patriotic as her Chechen classmates who could trace their family trees back to the acorns

Because change creates opportunity, when we do it through purpose and awareness, we are working with the fates, and in turn they smile upon us.

We are our choices.. That's why I am so afraid to choose.. Because more than anything else, I am afraid of facing myself..

I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced, vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open.

A day in a man’s life is constructed according to whether he accepts or rejects flashes of inspiration.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

I don't mind being at their side, with respect to the Ukraine. But why should we always be out front? How many times can we be out in front on these issues?

In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.

I joined a health spa recently. They had a sign for "Free Weights." So I took a couple.

I went through seventh grade in private school. I went to private school from kindergarten to seventh grade.