The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.

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.

I can only imagine that future generations will consider us to have been barbaric for our intolerance of differences.

People who complain about something that they cannot do anything about are as irritating as those who complain about something that they can do something about.

Tighten your grip, make me bleed, it's a hunger I need to feed. Strip me bare, pull my hair, I don't care just take me there.

For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.

We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.

Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.

Nature does not forgive.

Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation.

Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.

The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing.