The point is not to give people a break. The point is to tell all the truth you can bear about them and not despise them, not to be a kumbaya kind of guy.

Film schools are not rigorous enough. They let things get by and kids get out there and they think they are saying something and doing something.

We're in an era where you learn about techniques, but you don't experience anything crucial in yourself about a piece of work from an artist that you love.

I would not presume to say that I know anything about "The Truth," whatever that is.

That's what it means to be an American. To be free to love who and what you want, and to keep a lot in your heart at once.

A story never ends. The narrator is usually provided with a nice, artistic spot for his voice to stop, but that's about all.

Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.

I am not for any form of repression, but I sometimes think the desire for liberation masks the desire for oblivion. It's very hard to tell the difference sometimes.

Believe in yourself, know yourself, deny yourself, and be humble.

The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.

I love film, very, very much, and I always want to go back to it.

Sound has no parents.

Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun.