My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

I think people are universal.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

Great books make a great life.

Choose to be in love!

Do not destroy anybody’s peace. You will find peace.

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

It's okay to have faith in something that you can't see or touch.

When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining.

I think denim is something everyone feels comfortable in. It's kind of my uniform, really.

I'm perpetually lonely.

Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?