I considered writing a book too, but I think people don't like to read, to be honest - they want to watch. People want to see crazy things, so we decided to make a film ["Selling Isobel"] instead.

It's my story ["Selling Isobel"].I chose to write a screenplay about it because I think film is the quickest medium to get a story out, rather than writing a book.

I was very concerned about who was going to take my story and realize it, so I was very particular and spent a lot of time going over things with him, talking about how I wanted it to be told.

We reached a compromise [in film "Selling Isobel" ] - arty on the one hand, raw and crazy on the other.

A positive attitude feels a heck of a lot better than a negative one.

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

The cooperation of NASCAR - or any other system, it turns out - persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.

Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.

Shaping it is something I would expect to do together with a writer, because that's a director's job.

Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed? You accommodate them.

I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.