Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer.

I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating...anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you.

You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

What are the stories you want people to tell about you?

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

Without risk I have no fear, without any fear - what's the point, because I have no opportunity for success.(Gavin Kaysen)

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart 'Tis woman's whole existence.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

I must do something or I shall wear my heart away.

Our joy ends where love of the world begins.

I sometimes feel tired. But there are so many reasons for being tired.

In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.

Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.

History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.

I'm a calm person who wants to talk about things and think things through.