The most important thing is the script.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.

Cecilia had unleashed her blood in the bath, Amy Schraff said, because the ancient Romans had done that when life became unbearable.

The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.

It’s very easy for me to gain weight. Even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn’t do it any longer because I liked my food too much.

When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.

If I went in debt a million dollars every time I committed genocide, I'd be our economy.

Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.

To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error.

Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.

A true worshipper is one whose mind has not been defiled with any false belief.