The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

Why...do you find this...distracting?

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Chaos happens. Let's make better use of it.

One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.

Hearts will break - yet brokenly, live on.

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.

We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them.

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it.

I have been stupid and regret making a silly mistake experimenting with drugs.

If you leave, we lose and our pasts win.