There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

When we give up the chase, we give up our wishing.

When he opens the door, I step in and an army of memories comes at me from all sides.

Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.�

Salutations; it's just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning

I'm not a fan of maggots. I could never do that I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!

I have always believed that the only way to cope with a cash crisis is not to contract but to try to expand out of it.

Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.

I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.