I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. But that's part of the pleasure of doing it, pushing yourself in new directions.

Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.

When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

Confidence is essential, but ego is not.

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

You think about taking audiences on a journey.

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

I eat breakfast pretty much 'round the clock - muffins in the morning, scones for lunch, cereal at night - which may be odd but is also oddly satisfying, if only because the choice is my own.

My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it."

When we do what God wants us to do, we are blessed, we are spiritually healthy.

Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counselor.

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.

Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.

I don't even get an allowance.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.

Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.