Somewhat dramatic things happen, and you don't even always notice them — that's what life is.

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.

One thing I'd do is get rid of carried interest.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

It's an honor playing for Bobby Cox.

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

I feel a strong relationship with God and I feel my ties are with him. That's how I honestly feel.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Truth can hurt so very much.

Wherever I make a movie, no matter what size it is, it's always about a straightforward communication with the producer.

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.