Sometimes if the people are up for trying something that I'm interested in, it can be a great experience.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.

I don't think any of us are normal people.

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.

The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.

You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song.

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

The inability to see air does not prevent us from breathing. Being unable to see God should not prevent us from believing.

Milkshakes make the world seem less shitty.

We're like goldfields. Until we dig deep to find what's inside us, our true potentials may be hidden forever.

A lion's strength does not lie in its roar.

The keys to the life of the heart lie in reflecting upon the Quran, being humble before Allah in secret, and leaving sins.

Whatever you believe cosmologically, we all know the tears of the world. We each carry a certain measure of those tears in our hearts.

You might be a redneck if you think the Mountain Men in Deliverance were just misunderstood.

My beloved child, break your heart no longer. Each time you judge yourself, you break your own heart.

Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.

All bookshelves are magical.