I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about each piece of it.

Writing is really freeing because it's the only part of the process where it's just you and the characters and you are by yourself in a room and you can just hash it out. There are no limitations.

I love the freedom of writing and then I love the realization of directing. I can't favor one or the other. I enjoy both parts of the process.

Once your film is done, you can't explain to people what something was supposed to be. You can't give them footnotes. It all has to be there.

In New York there's a lot of interstitial spaces; spaces in between spaces, where you're changing, and New York gives you the anonymity to be who you want to be.

Christ alone makes possible everything you are as a Christian.

We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh.

It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.

We - Russian side is ready to be as active as American side is ready.

My number one advice to high school girls is birth control. You want to keep all your options open for as long as possible? Birth control.

Wealth that comes quickly, goeth the same way.

Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.

I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger.

I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural.

I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.