The only safe thing in filmmaking is to take a chance.

There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

Any good movie is filled with secrets.

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

The unconscious is our best collaborator.

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

I was just trying to make a nice little movie... It wasn't until I saw it all put together that I realized this was something remarkable.

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies.

Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear

Forensics had taught her that scars left tissue much tougher than skin.

It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.

Those who the gods seek to destroy first, learn how to play golf.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

If you can find the God inside yourself, you can find the God inside everybody.

A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space.

To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some permissable manner made away with, and swept out of sight, is not an amiable faith.

Sin we have explain'd away; Unluckily, the sinners stay.