The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

I think people are universal.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

Pray tell, ” she said, although her voice told him not to.He ignored her tone, let out a thoughtful cloud of smoke, and said, ...

It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.

But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.

I'm someone who would like to act like I don't care, but I care.

Idealists are not the good friends of the truths; they create their own truth.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

Every flower of the field, every fiber of a plant, every particle of an insect carries with it the impress of its Maker and can-if duly considered-read us lectures of ethics or divinity.

If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?

We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?