I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

Im very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.

Most people, 95% of people, are good people. Its the 5% who get seduced by power.

The arc of the celebrity phenomenon ultimately is: everything turns to dust and everything does go away.

Generally in my films like Hearts of Darkness or Picture This, I try not to make myself a presence in the film.

Obviously you have a responsibility - one would like to think there is such a thing as ethics in filmmaking.

What was the point of starting a new life if she did everything the same as her old one?

But witchy magic doesn’t listen to please and pretty please, and anyway, I didn’t really care. I only pretended to care because not caring makes me a monster.

Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.

Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.

Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.

Public influence is the real government of the world.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men but is a gift from God.

It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart.

I will entertain anything; it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not about who, it's kind of about when and what. It's material, that's all.

As an artist, I like working with filmmakers that have the balls to kind of imagine the unimaginable. Those are kind of the radicals that I identify with.