I think that's my approach: If it feels right for a scene to be whole, to hold on without cutting for a long time, then that's great. But other scenes, they don't want it.

I'm really glad Westerns have had a revival. Hopefully our little resurgence will last a while.

As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

It once occured to me that literature - all art really - is either talking to people about God, or talking to God about people.

Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.

All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.

Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.

People that take responsibility are often given responsibility!

However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.