The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings.

I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past.

Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection.

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.

Don't differentiate between 'This is a job' and 'This is what I'm doing for fun.' It's all simultaneous.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

The things that are really out of control, and scary, are emotions - of people around you, that are unpredictable, or those in yourself which are unpredictable.

If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself.

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

When shall we live if not now?

If quarrelling be really the renewal of love, theirs had been renewed once a day at all events, and frequently much oftener.

The girls with prettiest smiles seem to tell saddest stories

An author departs; he does not die.

Pull downe your hatt on the winds side.

I had always been singing, all of my life, but it wasn't until I got out of high school and was on my own that I didn't have any accompaniment.

To dare: that is the whole secret of revolutions.

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.