I think technology is having a democratising effect on film.

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations.

The key is to have energy.

The air smelled like Bayou Teche when it's spring and the fish are spawning among the water hyacinths and the frogs are throbbing in the cattails and the flooded cypress.

A good headline can make an advertisement good even if the picture is poor.

We belong to each other.

Prudery is ignorance.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.