I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.

When it feels scary to jump, that’s exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do.

When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.

I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone­­, but a movie director and writer was beyond my role of understanding.

We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.

I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

I think my films kind of walk this line that Im proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.

Can't be on the front lines fighting a war with the weapons given to you by the enemy.

A person can be successful in any sphere that God has called him to

For the record…” I took her hand and held it up. “These are the only hands I want on me.

There was a man sitting in the dining room of the Titanic, he said: "I know I asked for ice, but this is ridiculous."

It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.

Most of my hunting experiences has been in tree stands. I've never called deer.

Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?

Christ is our temple, in whom by faith all believers meet.

Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.

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