I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

Any good movie is filled with secrets.

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

The unconscious is our best collaborator.

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

I was just trying to make a nice little movie... It wasn't until I saw it all put together that I realized this was something remarkable.

I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies.

I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

Living in active consciousness is being in the “here and now

The mind reels.

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.

And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain.

As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.

What touches your heart is meaning.

I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

You're not going to live your life unscathed.