I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

My brother, he says. My brother is dead."And again he asks me to kill him. One more time before he falls to his knees and sobs. And i get it. I do. Because i have a brother too.

LET THE FLAMES BEGIN!

That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.

I see the world as an illusion, and we shouldn't take ourselves so seriously

King Fahd was a man of wisdom and a leader who commanded respect throughout the entire world. He was a friend and strong ally of the United States for decades.

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

Perfection cannot be reached, because nothings perfect. But things can change, and so can people

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

I don't wear a watch because I want my arms to weigh the same.

I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.