In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.

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.

Music is the emotions that words can not express.

Happiness depends as Nature shows less on exterior things than most suppose.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.

When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off."

I find that nowadays it's just gotten harder for me to read for fun. It feels like all of my reading is research-based.

They wear suits, that's why they are lazy. They are servants, they are supposed to serve us. You can't build an RDP house with a tie.

Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine - in fact one shudders to imagine - a child of today reading and enjoying it.

Textbooks don't teach people how to avoid paying any income tax. But that's what an army of tax lawyers and corporate tax accountants do.

The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.