My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

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.

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

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.

You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really FEEL the loss.

Everything from the humble woodlouse to specks of dust moving through a ray of sunlight. Each tells a story.

Were you watching me sleep? Because I thought we agreed that's creepy.

When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.

Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.

Sustainability has become an ornament.

My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.

I’m alarmed that to think than modern science may be turning creativity into a medical disorder