I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.

I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.

I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure.

Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.

Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea.

He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise.

Trust is like a valuable antique, once gone, it can never be replaced.

The Word of God became man, that thou mayest learn from man how man may become God.

We brewers don't make beer, we just get all the ingredients together and the beer makes itself.

Give up being perfect for being authentic. Be who you are. Love who you are. Others will too.

It's really fun to create something that touches the world.

Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.

You can't have a strong nation without strong values, and no one is born with strong values. They have to be taught to you in strong families and reinforced in you in strong communities.

I never have the feeling that I actually know what I'm doing or anything that I'm writing is any good.

We become what we love. Whatever you are giving your time and attention to, day after day, is the kind of person you will eventually become.