Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.

I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.

Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves.

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

Serving God is equivalent to serving men

The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.

I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it.

Our human weakness is protected by the assistance of the Angels and...in all our perils, provided faith remain with us, we are defended by the aid of spiritual powers.

Zach had brought her a dog.

I can't blend in to how everyone else is looking.

I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way.

We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.