I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

I think people are universal.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

We did not decide to be born hence

Giving is a necessary good

How can I have hung round you for five years and not think girls are clever?

When you direct a film, everything should be about the story and nothing else.

See that you feel the truths that you speak.

Leftist organizations are aggressively attempting to redefine America in their own Godless image.

The state or global forms of power that seek to protect populations considered in danger may well extend their own power through those acts of protection.

People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.

I dream in my dreams all the dreams of the other dreamers. And I become the other dreamers.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.