There's a script, then you're going to shoot the script and then you cut that and then that's the end of the film. And that's never really been how I've seen it.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

You're trying to create a screenplay and your screenplay is there to give you a structure, rigidity, situational awareness, who the characters are, what do they want, what's the shape of the thing.

You face challenges and you have to make choices. You're weighing the necessary responsibility toward reality and authenticity and of course the need to create a compressed drama over two hours.

Why are people saying it's too soon? Like the people on that flight, we need to agree about what to do about terrorism. And I think we need to have that conversation now.

In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.

You sort of can't talk about the post production unless you talk about what comes first.

The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional.

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.

I think when you think of my films, I think hopefully you think of an extreme sort of real unfolding, real-time, performed, feeling semi-improvised, you know what I mean, all that.

There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different.

Innovative leadership is essentially anchored on the leader’s overall multifaceted resourcefulness and multidimensional competencies.

the decision to stand unapologetically for the gospel has been tantamount to a new conversion. It brings peace

Life is full of traps: Poisons can be sweet

There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.

Being of service to others daily makes me feel alive.

I've seen Dempsey fight and I was impressed with his lack of knowledge.

Faust was this mythical figure who sold his soul to the devil for unlimited power. The Japanese have made that Faustian bargain because they don't have coal, oil or hydro power.

Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.

You see in Once Upon a Time in the West the whole film moves around her [Claudia Cardinale]. If you take her out, there's no more film. She's the central motor of the entire happening.

The world is full of horror. Our imaginations struggle to keep up. It would be a poor life without imagining. I’m not sure we can have any salvation, in fact, without imagining.