Nerves provide me with energy. ... It's when I don't have them when I feel at ease that I get worried.

There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

Any good movie is filled with secrets.

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

The unconscious is our best collaborator.

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

I was just trying to make a nice little movie... It wasn't until I saw it all put together that I realized this was something remarkable.

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies.

Don't go into the business of pleasing people. You can't please everybody. Simply do your best at what you do

Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, 'I apologize.' Except at a funeral.

Ultimately, I'm fine with everything that I've done.

We do not need Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Education; we need a single Department of Skills that will promote an integrated approach to global competitiveness.

The rules are very strict.

Without anxiety life would have very little savor.

The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power.

We're blessed with, as we were on 'Harry Potter,' lead actors who are amazingly grounded people.

It gives me a sense of tunnel vision.

Something there is more immortal even than the stars.