I only work every five years. It's exhausting. I've got a family, and I want to be a really good parent, as well as a hopefully good filmmaker.

Pray until you can pray. And when you can pray, keep praying.

how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!

I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.

Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.

I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.

We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery.

Sooner or later, a man if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and take.