I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything.

We're living in a world that says that if you engage in mass fraud, you'll be rewarded, but if you go down the street and steal an orange juice, you get arrested.

The job of the writer and the filmmaker is not to impose his vision on the reality, but to be inspired by the reality and create a vision out of that.

Since Hollywood seems to be more interested in people wearing tights and using powers, there seems to be a fertile ground for movies about real human beings.

It's hard for me to say you have to accept that the world is meaningless and the landscape is there before and after. That's not something we learn much in our culture growing up.

Sometimes we have dreams, but we just can't make them. That's normal.

I think happy and hope is more hopeful when you acknowledge that there's awful things too.

I'm not going to read reviews like, "I have to do these things." Any good criticism makes you think about your own films and about cinema in general.

You have to let life come and go.

I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any time.

The actors come and you start seeing things happen for real.

How wonderful is the word of God.

I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud

Advice, the smallest current coin.

The world is grand, awfully big and astonishingly beautiful, frequently thrilling.

As spirits we have always existed in a generalized form, since we are all part of the universe. As individual spirits, we have existed for a timeless time.

I'm a dirty kid, I like to be outside, I like to run about, I like to get messy. So I spent a lot of time outside as a kid, skating and just being a disaster.

I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones.

I'm into politics - I'm interested in the election and how pissed off people get.

Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.

The prospect of the UK without a BBC funded by the licence fee is anywhere between improbable and impossible.