I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

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

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

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.

Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.

Life's a book filled on pages Just awaiting to be written.Some don't open it for ages, Maybe afraid of being bitten.

One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.

Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.

Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.

Good-humor makes all things tolerable

To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling unforeseen consequences.

The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.

South of Somewhere and north of Nowhere.

Whenever you create a universal device that does all things for all people, it does not do any things well.