I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart.

To be a creative person and be a professional, as an artist you have to be able to withstand pain, rejection, and for some, a lot of bad feelings, but you have to be able to look through those.

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

By 1988, I was living in New York myself.

To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself.

You are always factoring in the economy within the process of creating something, and making decisions that seem both fearless and full of fear.

I'm a version of the same person.

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his comedy even when they touch on tragedy.

The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films.

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.

I'm interested in what actors reveal about themselves through the structure of the character.

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.

I’m really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why, or what.

Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Information is the hardest currency.

I would rather insult you than lose you, he said, and before any of them could make a move to stop him, he cast both items into the fire.

Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.

If you said, 'What is the most important aspect of winning football games?' I don't think I could give you an answer to that question.

but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much.