I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word "lavish" and everything being magnificent.

A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.

I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.

A British villain never loses their sense of humour.

It's utter arrogance to think that we can know what god ought to be or do. If we don't understand we must continue our search or recognize our ignorance

If you try to do that which is not ‘our’ duty [the Self’s duty], it will create interference.

You don't pity a warrior for her scars, because scars are proof of survival and victory.

Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.

Christianity has nothing to offer a happy man living in a natural, intelligible universe.

Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven. So you may always belong there, bound by guilt. And maybe the cost of belonging is worth it.

What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.

I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.

More and more I find that in order to create effectively one has to consider delirium and, yes, organize it.

We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.