My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.

When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very close to what I set out to do. And I'm super-opinionated about what I do and don't like.

I'm always a sucker for a love story.

The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever

My movies are not about being, but becoming.

It's about moments in life that are great but don't last. They don't go on, but you always have the memory and they have an effect on you. That's what I was thinking about.

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

You don't have to be loud. If you know what you want, people respect that.

Forget the audience, make what you want to see

Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.

We become what we believe

I will forget what you said, but I will never forget how lively, joyful and grateful you made me feel.

Those who have easy cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments regardless of money "making it" or success.

I was eager to see what Swedish design had to offer and get a sense of its fashion culture, and Altewai Saome was the perfect introduction.

The 2000s were marked by terrorism and a bipartisan desire to fight it.

I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful.

Every song asks to be sung in a different way.

Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.

Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author.