I love moving through long spaces and being enclosed.

Theres a kind of dream that movies sell to people: You can start as the lowliest person and rise to the top. Hit Me doesnt sell this fantasy.

Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?

Like all independent movies, the first thing you're looking for is a name actor who will justify your financing.

You hear this said about actors sometimes, that they're fearless, but she [ Maggie Gyllenhaal] really is.

The problem with most love stories in my opinion is that they're too simplistic.

The movie that made me want to make movies was "Blue Velvet."

You don't make movies about "men" and "women." You make movies about this guy and this woman and if you get them right, you'll automatically connect with a lot of people.

I think a lot of young women are probably fearful or embarrassed or cautious or hiding whatever their particular sexuality might be. From the most odd to the just slightly abberrant.

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

There is perfect love in Heaven!

I am a product of two worlds and each world has given me a reason to love, be kind and grow strong.

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

All you can see, if you look through the window - everything you see is a fulfillment of dreams, different dreams.

I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything.

Master books, but do not let them master you.

The chief ability of an executive should be his ability to recognize ability.

Success is often harder to take than failure.

I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.