I'm not interested in doing a simple, straightforward action movie, unless they want to pay me lots of money.

My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.

If you try to do a look-alike and an impersonation, then that's just not conducive to good drama.

As a director you want to show the truth of people and sometimes that's unflattering, or it's not something that people want to see.

The thing about Hitchcock is that, however much one dissects him, he still manages to hang onto his mystery. You can never quite get to the bottom of him.

I'm looking for richness, complexity, and characters that have different layers and that you don't really get bored of.

There's so much energy that's needed, for every stage of the process, so I don't want to do something that I'm bored by with characters that I don't like or actors that aren't going to surprise you.

I'm a pusher dealing hope, at the intersection of Desire and Despair.

I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.

It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

I forgot more than you'll ever know.

I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.

I know there are expectations, but I don't let them affect mt game. I just play basketball.

To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands.

The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.