My films do very well on home video.

I used to be a die-hard defender of physical film, which I still am. I love shooting on physical film and I think it's great.

Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.

Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.

While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.

Action to me is something very fun to shoot.

I love films like Deliverance where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.

I covet solitude and storms…and rain, with its geography of dark silence and distance

Your biography becomes your biology. This biography includes the totality of your choices, the things you feed your body - you thoughts, your actions, your food - the thing you feed your life.

Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

I know I'm not great at structure and story.

As a director, I try not to implement a way for working, for every single actor, across the board. I try to work with each one, on an individual basis.

Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.

The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.

One of my favorite scenes of the movie [Valley of Violence] is when Ethan Hawke is sitting at the campfire with the dog.

When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.