I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

This moment is all there is and LOVE is like the glue that keeps you in it.

Creativity expands the mind, stretches it beyond ordinary human comprehension, resulting in the mind being elastic and capable of transcending and discerning complex ideas.

It's not how you start, it's how you finish.

Grammar is like a strive for perfection. It's useless really.

I foresee a great funeral contest over me.

I try to be really hippie about things. I'm uptight in all the ways that are really important, but the things my husband and family can benefit from my uptightness, I'm completely lacking.

The more things you own, the more people you need to employ.

Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.

I know that's not something that people like to do - identify a favorite. But I do.

Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and and maintain their laws and institutions. By these means they make their governments invincible.