I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

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

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

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

The further you are challenged and threatened, the more your warrior heart will emerge.

I have a lot of confidence in my shot and I'm willing to shoot it no matter what.

If our writing is worth anything at all, then we have to put ourselves into it.

[...]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!” “Mine is erratic,” he said imperturbably. “I remember only what interests me.

Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.

The funny thing about me is I move from genre to genre, but I essentially shoot all the movies the same way.

God created two acts of folly. First, He created the Universe in a Big Bang. Second, He was negligent enough to leave behind evidence for this act, in the form of microwave radiation.

Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.

Everything changes, money rules. In my era, if you were successful, you were going to make money, but you never worried about it.

Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother.