I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

Life is a lesson that must never be taken for granted.

You can't solve problems until you understand the other side." –Jeffrey Manber

We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow.

"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.

Levi's eyebrows were pornographic. If Cath were making this decision just on eyebrows, she would have been "up to his room" a long time ago.

And I can see Russia from my house.