It's OK to have beliefs, just don't believe in them.

It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.

We're not unique. We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.

I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

If somebody has a better idea than me, I'll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it's me that takes the credit anyway!

If you change the rules on what controls you... you will change the rules on what you can control.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot.

We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

Today and tomorrow is an illusion, days are all joined together, and if you are waiting for your time, you are wasting your time.

Do you ever answer anything in a way that people expect you to?

A sudden peace and excitement washes over me at the sound of a voice I’ve never heard, yet I know so well.

The real drag is trying to fly from country to country, day of show, with all your gear. You get hassled all the time. It's hard trying to keep it together.

I'll always have a kid in me.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?

We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.

Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit, The one's for use, the other useth it.