I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.

You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.

Every great story deserves a great ending

I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.

Can't be on the front lines fighting a war with the weapons given to you by the enemy.

Bravery is not the absence of fear, but rather, it is the decision to look fear in the eyes and press on regardless

The best place to look at failure is in the rear-view mirror.

Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.

From life, from the apple cut by the flaming knife, what grain will be saved? My son, believe me, nothing remains, Only adult toil, the furrow of fate in the palm. Only toil, Nothing more.

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!!

I am using soybean based ink, which is recyclable.

Scientifically, there's no debate over whether the fetus is alive and human.

I think my heart breaks daily living in Salt Lake City, Utah. But I still love it. And that is the richness, the texture.

You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.