I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

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.

Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us, ...

All knowledge that Science has acquired so far, has been through the concentration of the powers of the mind.

God's plan will never look easy when you are sitting in hell. KEEP MOVING!

Though we cannot see the heart, we can see the life.

He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

I find it very hard to say yes or no quite openly, because people are never satisfied. One day they write us off as saying we're not together and the next day we're together and getting married.

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.

The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.

There are really only two ways to react to the extraordinary. The first is to ponder the grand purpose until all the fun is sucked away, the second is to enjoy it.