I learn more with each film, and I gain confidence in my style of working. But at the same time, each one is a new monster.

The sort of movies I make are not ones that can easily be sold upfront, so I have to make them and prove their mettle before I can sell them.

When I am looking for you, then in silence, your every atom is longing for me.

If only I could rest for a time in quiet pain and awaken new and willing. He is looking forward and I am inward.

You can't predict the outcome. You can't raise a child and then tell them what to think.

Enlightenment is something that you've been resisting to happen. It’s not something you have to struggle to make happen. The key is not to get in the way! Just allow it occur.

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

If the polls are right, our Judeo-Christian heritage is no longer the foundation of our values. We have become a post-Christian society.

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.

People don't live in Los Angeles because we are tied to the same old, same old. We live in Los Angeles because of the intoxicating energy of new beginnings that permeate our city.