It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

When Christian leaders dare to invade with authority the devil’s domain with kingdom attitude, people listen

I've had a lot of therapists, so I've had the opportunity to approach my fear in many different ways. I've faced it head on and sideways and tried to tiptoe up behind it.

What is needful is necessary.

It felt as if I was suddenly walking around in wet socks, weighing my feet down as if two kids were sitting on my feet with their legs wrapped around mine.

We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.

If you live in a small space, you should do the things that make it feel luxurious.

Don't accept the excuse of complexity.

The type of girls that would sleep with you in a heartbeat aren't the type of girls I'd want to take home anyway.

I hardly ever work from a synopsis -- I find they act like chains.

People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it.