There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker

I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them more user-friendly and efficient.

But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.

The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.

You have the ability to control your thoughts.

I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do.

The most important goal I had in mind was to convince people to stop blindly trusting algorithms and assuming that they are inherently fair and objective.

At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.

Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you.

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, with four hungry children and a crop in the field.

People change their habits. I know Americans who don't go to Paris because they think it is too dangerous.

Shooting in New York is the shiznit, if I may be so bold. It was great. New York is a character. People who live here know that.

Form and content must never apologize for each other.

I think Bush came back because Colin Powell was there. Hey, I'm the brigadier general, baby.