I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.

I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it.

I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.

God is speaking. He is, by His nature, continuously articulate. He fills the world with His speaking voice.

It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead of live.

The only church that illuminates is a burning church.

The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.

When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

I think that ISIS is a problem and it's really a symptom of a much greater problem.

A studio is a good place to smoke your pipe.

I think Scotland is probably my spiritual home and I love it there very, very much.