I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

I think people are universal.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Truthis like a vast tree, which yields more and more fruit, the more you nurture it

The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.

I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd.

What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

We're either going to be dependent on dirty oil from the Gulf or dirty oil from Canada.

Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"

Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.