I prefer working behind the camera.

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.

If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that’s a script!

Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive.

Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always let it keep rolling.

What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea? Is there an avenging power in Nature? Not one power, but two?

My attitude is always let it keep rolling.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

Martin Sheen was extraordinary. He's a very gifted man.

I film quite a bit of footage, then edit. Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always 'let it keep rolling.'

You want a shadow, you got to have light and something to get in its way.

If I were given a change of life I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer.

It’s precisely the people who are considered the least ‘likely’ leaders who end up inspiring others the most. Everyday people and everyday acts of courage eventually change everything.

They say...the stopwatch never lies. Speed kills but absolute speed kills absolutely.

I went to a bookstore the other day. I asked a woman behind the counter where the self-help books were. She said, ‘If I told you, that would defeat the whole purpose.’

Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.

The Universe is on the side of Justice

I had been making a lot of family oriented movies, which I also like. But I still have a passion for the midnight audience and for midnight movies.

There's a gaping difference between the United States of America and Putin's Russia.

Sometimes you grow out of love.