More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

Failure is a greater teacher than success

People are like pistachios. Some of them open up easily, but there are others who need to be really broken to get into.

Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.

Sometimes losing is winning

Whenever we do something for someone else, we affirm that we are not simply in it for ourselves, that our self is someone else, is everyone else.

If you ever meet anyone who tells you his or her religion can offer all the answers, run for the hills. Or at least hide your wallet.

Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are.

God gave us family so that when we have a hard time praying for ourselves, we have others who will pray for us.

My faith in God is such that I am not afraid.

...his job was the very least important part of his life, never to be mentioned except in irony.