I'm just a pretty regular dad.

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.

For a second, I see into the future: she's old and grey, she has senile dementia and can't remember my name. The thought pretty much breaks my heart in two.

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

With strength and determination you can do anything you want in life, as long as you believe in yourself, because if you don't, no one else will.

That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.

True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.

When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.

You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.

Increase in prayer, increase in prayer, increase in prayer until Jesus comes.

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the earth which Joshua ordered to stand still.

My mother-in-law is obsessed with clowns.