I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past.

Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection.

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.

Don't differentiate between 'This is a job' and 'This is what I'm doing for fun.' It's all simultaneous.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

The things that are really out of control, and scary, are emotions - of people around you, that are unpredictable, or those in yourself which are unpredictable.

If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself.

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respectful of that. But I'm never going to compromise.

El ser humano ha sido siempre un asesino muy superior al resto de criaturas".

We all have our times of anger. It’s when we hang onto that anger it becomes a poison to our heart and mind.

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

People who do well in life understand things that other people don't understand.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

All the child-star clichés. I've tried very hard to avoid them all.

Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.

My ultimate goal in life, with my music, is to make a movement.

I just think it is so delightful to see people, let their elbows free. I think the exuberance of it all is really exciting to me. It's a signal of the abundance of diversity and creative expression.

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.