If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

I think people are universal.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

Devon had been so lonely, so terribly lonely, for so long. The kind of lonely that sears, that burrows its way deep inside a heart and throbs. Like a gnawing hunger.

Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.

When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.

As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.

Compassion doesn't have to be weak or enabling; it can also be quite bold.

A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult.

In the tranquillity of a garden, we detest the war and love the peace much more than any other places!

In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part.

What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?