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

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.

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.

I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

The person who knows his calling will find opportunities everywhere

The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill and then came down again: The king of Spain with twenty thousand more Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before.

America has the mightiest military on the planet, and they didn't get there with entertainers.

You will find many a creature by earth, air, and water, that is more beautiful than a woman.

I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure.

What is dark within me, illumine.

Maybe this is the secret to talking to boys--maybe you just have to be angry all the time.

Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.

You win when no one finds you, even if they're not looking.

At one time they've been the most important thing to me. So I can't hear our records on the radio, I can't stand it, because they sound so out of what everyone else is doing.