I want people to feel something in the pit of their stomach. I want my movies, especially the ending, to stay with people long after the credits have rolled.

It's always about a character that I become obsessed with and who refuses to leave me alone.

The secret is you need a director who refuses to walk away and you need a director willing to put their whole career behind the project.

As a director I always look at someone's eyes. How truthful are they? Will this person take me on this journey?

I want to give up every single day of my life, but I can't. I'm obsessed.

I want to give the audience what they want, but not at all costs. I want to leave them with something. I try to do that with every single movie I make.

Some day people will ask me what is the key to my success...and I will simply say, "good Karma.

Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well.

I always pray before any of the operation. I think God help me know what to do.

Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them.

The world is a mirror for us – whatever you say about others is really how you feel about yourself.

Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.

My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.

I have given my all Funny how you could always make me feel small

I think the greatest way to learn is to learn by someone's example.