I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

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.

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.

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

Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.

Aren't you scared your kid's getting kidnapped...RIGHT NOW?

But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.

You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.

I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

Oh, are you from Wales? Do you know a fella named Jonah-He used to live in whales for a while

Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.

There is nothing quite as potent as a focused life, one lived on purpose.

No man taketh away sins (which the law, though holy, just and good, could not take away), but He in whom there is no sin.

Dying is no big deal. The least of us will manage that. Living is the trick.