I like to think I'm un-categorisable.

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.

Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed.

God knew that children grow and mature best in a stable, loving family, and this was one reason He gave marriage to us.

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all

The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.

I came out of the womb born to sing and dance. I have to follow my heart.

We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.

I don't speak during the day. I warm up physically and, obviously, vocally, constantly. And I try to live like a nun.

All cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small.

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.