Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way.

When you make a film, you come to say something.

There was something, which was the turning point: I felt very strongly that women were sexualized, and perceived like they are sexual in every move, and it started off really early.

With a screenwriter and with the actors there is always an environment of trust. You can say anything, all your secrets, and you know that it won't get out of that room.

The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.

I didn't want to do casting in a way that you find yourself in a situation where there's this perfect girl for a part and you just can't cast her because the family says no.

Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.

There's something about all the people who are on a mission for purity and chastity, which I find very questionable.

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

If you can't beat 'em in the alley, you can't beat 'em on the ice.

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

Every word about the God-breathed character of Scripture is meaningless if Holy Scripture is not understood as the witness concerning Christ.

The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.

Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.

I finished school, because I started when I was thirteen, so basically around 16 or 17, I just focused on finishing high school.

Mal Blum's arrival on the indie scene gives us all hope for the future of smart music.

Movies are an editor's medium.