Usually I'm thinking about the palette. I'm thinking about the color for the most part, then I'll start thinking about composition and movement.

I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating...anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you.

You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

What are the stories you want people to tell about you?

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

When in doubt, tell the truth. When in pain, listen to the wind.

Ask and visualize for what your intuition has guided you for because visualization is the strongest tool for manifestation.

Be a partaker, it’s the period of the end-time harvest

To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.

Enjoy your life today because yesterday had gone and tomorrow may never come

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.” -R. Daneel Olivaw

Beware of the thief on the street that's after your purse. But also beware of the thief in your mind that's after your promise.

To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.

Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world

The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.