My movies, in general, I have the impression that when they finish of course they're never originally what you had in mind.

In horror movies today its lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.

My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.

I would love to stay alone when I'm creating.

I could feel the real interaction between directing and acting, when an actor or an actress really suggests very interesting things.

My first cut is always pretty similar to the final cut.

Violence is the great attractor of human history, Dr. Iverson. A force almost as irresistible as gravity.

Our body hears whatever is in our mindsand responds.

When he came in first, he was happy to find all sorts of meaning in the results.

Let 'the cause' become the 'because' – the reason – for people to do business with and to refer business to you

As far as dude running the ball, or running with the ball, and somebody hit you helmet to helmet, I think you got an opportunity to go down. You got an opportunity to slide.

O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!

Confidence and hope do more good than physic.

The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.

The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.

Your body is a form of energy slowed down to assume the appearance of mass. And the mind directs the energy that determines the form.