I really wanted to emphasize the idea of the women being isolated and abandoned . . . and they weren't raised to take care of themselves, so they had to learn to survive.

When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very close to what I set out to do. And I'm super-opinionated about what I do and don't like.

I'm always a sucker for a love story.

The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever

My movies are not about being, but becoming.

It's about moments in life that are great but don't last. They don't go on, but you always have the memory and they have an effect on you. That's what I was thinking about.

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

You don't have to be loud. If you know what you want, people respect that.

Forget the audience, make what you want to see

Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

If my heart grows any fonder, it's going to hop out of my chest and into yours.

nothing wrong with a lie or two when the situation demanded it

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

Unbelievable, yet, what else could it be?

Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.

My spirit life very much depends on my work. My work very much depends on my spirit life. And I pray every day, as part of my own ritual, to a god I believe in, not a god somebody else believes in.

The world is a mirror representing the divine life.

O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!