The opportunity to shoot and get the depth out of the film - that I don't think you can get out of digital - is a huge deal for me.

I'm a big believer of "when there is a will there is a way" but from the studio's perspective I think it just seems like a bigger leap than you can get a sort of bureaucratic move to make.

Every time I trust my instincts I land on my feet and every time I don't, I go, "Why didn't I trust my instinct?"

Here is the thing, you can make a dope movie and it may never see the light of day. I am crazy proud of my first movie.

I think you don't break new ground in anything in life if you are willing to just follow the rules.

I believe locations should try to be and evoke the characters in a movie.

I am always striving to be the best that I can be as a filmmaker.

I am a loyalist and I really absolutely love film.

I love the opportunity to shoot digital because you can shoot so many takes, it's really malleable, it's a ton of fun, and it is easy.

The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables...

Genius is not the one who gives answers, it's the one who asks the questions.

A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.

It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.

In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.

The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind

The mystical kundalini is something that I normally use when we're on field trips, when we go to a place of power.

If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.

Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and Ive been a guitar junkie ever since.

Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity.

The healing principle is within man himself. Man's power to heal himself, or extend his healing power to others, is measured by his awareness of God in him.