If you can't count on your heart having some kind of unified response, you can't count on anything. You use your heart as a barometer for your movie's completeness.

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

I'm not a breakfast eater.

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.

Be of good courage.

A life of greatness can only come from one's true passion in life. There is absolutely no other way around it.

Go spend time with the aspen trees. They'll tell you how it works. They'll tell you to look to your roots for energy. They'll tell you there's warmth below the surface.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time.

I'm not a good storm-outer... because I forget stuff.

As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.

During the late nights, try to walk in the empty streets with an empty mind! Light of wisdom will soon accompany you!

Your high points and your low points. High points don't last that long, it's a high and it happens. It's great at the moment but you really can't live on it.