Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.

When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very close to what I set out to do. And I'm super-opinionated about what I do and don't like.

I'm always a sucker for a love story.

The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever

My movies are not about being, but becoming.

It's about moments in life that are great but don't last. They don't go on, but you always have the memory and they have an effect on you. That's what I was thinking about.

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

You don't have to be loud. If you know what you want, people respect that.

Forget the audience, make what you want to see

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you.

Success is attached to mentality of a man's maturity

How sad it was to realize that sometimes you never got there. That sometimes you lived a whole life skittering across the surface as the years passed, unblessed.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.

It is yesterday that makes tomorrow so sad.

The motivation comes from the embarrassment of having lost and the way it sits with you.

God grant, if we must have two eyes, that they may be both clear ones, one the eye of faith wholly fixed on Christ, the other the eye of obedience equally and wholly fixed on the same objective!

Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.

Do you mean am I worried about people seeing me with my jeans off? Sure. Sometimes people are overcome. They fall down. They hit their heads. It's worrying.

I plan to do my next two albums with Lady Gaga . She is quite a talent.