I wonder if there is anything to discover.

We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.

I'll marry you if you admit that respect, admiration, and trust equals love.

There's no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.

I think maybe written films are better than real films. You can see them in your head and yet everything is exactly as you want it to be.

TRUST took as its starting point the question, What would happen if a movie took the character of a teen-age girl seriously?.

This notion of changing technology interests me. I work on a computer now, and it's not been easy to adjust. I still prefer to have my hands on film when I'm editing.

Perhaps I'm just optimistic.

More and more, even with a measure of success, I'm not sure what it is people are seeing when they see a movie I've made.

All the discoveries seem to be discoveries of means.

I'm often uncertain of what's expected of a movie.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament.

The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.

God is unlimited and infinite with respect to time; He is eternal. God is unlimited and unaffected by space; He is present everywhere at the same time.

I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled.

If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.

Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking's just the measure.

Scandal is only human.

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.