Im very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

Most people, 95% of people, are good people. Its the 5% who get seduced by power.

The arc of the celebrity phenomenon ultimately is: everything turns to dust and everything does go away.

Generally in my films like Hearts of Darkness or Picture This, I try not to make myself a presence in the film.

Obviously you have a responsibility - one would like to think there is such a thing as ethics in filmmaking.

I adore forgotten words, long lost folk tales, and books with pages soft and crumbling. I am a collector of scents and memories. The things that others bury are the things I hold most dear.

The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart.

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.

There is nothing more marvelous or madder than real life.

It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.

Yours is the energy that makes your world. There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.

I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.

You have to relax when you're shooting an arrow. You can't be tense. And that just helps, in your day-to-day life.

Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn't know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense.