I think my films kind of walk this line that Im proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

When it feels scary to jump, that’s exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do.

When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.

I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone­­, but a movie director and writer was beyond my role of understanding.

We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.

I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.

I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.

I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry.

It's hard because you want to be able to just, okay, focus your energy on trying to win the match, but you need to then have tactics as to how you're going to deal with how you're feeling.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.

Everything I own has some significance to me.

The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.

Life may more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an aspect of Who You Are Not.

Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.

We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.

Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue.