The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

I think people are universal.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

The world needs more love and Twitter just figured out a way to send 'hearts all over the world'.

Growing older does not seem to make you more certain. It simply presents you with more reasons for doubt.

Inferiority complex begins when you agree that you are nothing. No one is responsible or author of it except yourself.

I think I think, therefore I think I am.

There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.

There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart, The rifle grooves curling with flakes of rust. A spider will make a silver string nest in the darkest, warmest corner of it.

Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently its the most difficult thing in the world.

Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices

I copy the dress of an animal because I love to copy God. I think God is the most fantastic designer.