Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie.

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

. . . for a good story, told often enough puts you in rooms you've never occupied.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Don't second guess the mistakes you've made, others will do that for you. Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

Wound me . . . I can only feed on my humiliated blood.

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

I want to touch people's hearts, to get right down to their souls.

One thing I'm not is a moralistic filmmaker. I'm not trying to tell people what to do, and I'm not trying to lead.

Lord deliver me from myself.

The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.