The art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there.There's only the thing and what the thing needs to be.

I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating...anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you.

You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

What are the stories you want people to tell about you?

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

Everyone can be trusted. You just can't give them more than they can be trusted with.

Most people in this world are a continuity, very few become an opportunity and the rarest of them all, evolve to be a possibility.

The greatest moments are right in front of you.

Our posture NOW defines our portion later!

There is no excuse for these 1,152 page textbooks.

Only worry about things that are within your control

There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.

If you are after truth, let your shadow be the only shadow around you! Stay away from the crowds!

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.