The muscle memory of filtering away all the wrong versions of what you're doing improves the more time you're on a film set. I feel like my problem-solving algorithm got kicked up a notch.

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.

The road to Heaven is ascension

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.

The best part about being married is that feeling of being a team. All couples have ups and downs, so having someone you trust is priceless

Martial arts have two parts. One is external, other internal. The external is physical part. The internal is philosophy of how to be, what kind of person learns martial arts.

To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.

Bull riding is probably the most dangerous sport in the world in terms of head injuries.

I'm quite an example. I have four kids, all from the same wife, all from the same husband.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.