Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

Sometimes you have to do the things that scare you and that are outside of your comfort zone and challenge yourself.

Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.

That's what you want: you want projects that you fall in love with. I don't think you pick your projects; you fall in love with them.

What scares me is not living up to be a good enough father to my son and letting down my family - not being there enough and not being able to give enough of yourself.

I'm very tired, but this is what every filmmaker dreams about: that their $15 million, under-the-radar film is now being seen by so many people.

Turing was fearless. He's extremely direct, which can be seen as socially awkward, and that becomes both his big obstacle but also, in many ways, his strength.

I'm such a romantic at heart.

In this forest of humanity we hate each other more than we love each other. When we will learn to love each other, only then we will see the peace.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day.

I was a kid and I studied when I had to [live].

Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

Synchronicity...means a 'meaningful coincidence' of outer and inner events that are not themselves causally connected. The emphasis lies on the word 'meaningful'.

It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.