My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

I would never wound a cat's feelings, no matter how downright aggressive I might be to humans.

I've got three daughters and I'm going to stand up for them and support them in whatever they want to do.

Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.

All human beings have all of the intelligences. But we differ, for both genetic and experiential reasons, in our profile of intelligences at any moment.

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

On my left knee I have a long scar from an ACL operation. I've had both knees reconstructed.

Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.

It's always a happy day when YYZ appears on our luggage tags.

Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.

The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.