On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respectful of that. But I'm never going to compromise.

I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past.

Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection.

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.

Don't differentiate between 'This is a job' and 'This is what I'm doing for fun.' It's all simultaneous.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

The things that are really out of control, and scary, are emotions - of people around you, that are unpredictable, or those in yourself which are unpredictable.

If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself.

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

Still there are some, braver and more valiant than their peers, who face their demons head on, staring defiantly into the shadows, demanding forgiveness.

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.

I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it.

The Hero cares not for a wild winter's storm. For it carries him swift on the back of the storm. All may be lost and our hearts may be worn, but a Hero fights forever.

Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint.

There's no perfect [date]. There's no agenda which has to be fulfilled. So really it's about the company and how well you get along.

Those who go to Heaven ride on a pass and enter into blessings that they never earned, but all who go to hell pay their own way.

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.

To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him.

Yes. Do you know people who are really nice, but when they get together with somebody in particular, they become obnoxious jerks?