The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

The road is long, we carry on, try to have fun in the meantime.

Remember, you are different than anyone else for a reason. A good reason. Find that reason and run with it.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.

Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.

Just for fun, I'm really goofy and I would love to do some stupid comedy. I'm talking, like, crazy, out there, Will Ferrell type of thing. I love it, I think those movies are so funny.

The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.

Ah. In my experience, when people say they don't know whether they love someone, they usually mean no.