I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills.

It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made.

Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.

Dialogue that's distinctive, funny, peculiar, and specific is the main thing that makes me want to get involved with a film to begin with.

Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.

I try to make the set as relaxed and fun and stress-free as humanly possible, while still having control over things. It's usually tension that hurts a performance or makes it seem self-conscious.

I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me.

Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.

The last Christmas movie I really liked was 'It's a Wonderful Life, ' probably. It's sort of a schmaltzy movie, but it's not without its dark moments. It still gets to me every year.

There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.

As a way of getting in touch with my originsevery night I set the alarm clockfor the time I was born so that waking upbecomes a historical reenactment and the first thing I do

Labour is blossoming or dancing whereThe body is not bruised to pleasure soul.

If I let myself care, all I'll feel is pain.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

One of the ultimate things a human can learn is kindness for their fellow humans

Let heaven fill your thoughts instead. Because when you do, everything on earth gets placed in its proper perspective.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.

Beauty is not in outer perfection but rather in the amount of light we allow to shine through the very thing obscuring our souls.