Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.

You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.

The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.

When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

You can't write something to please someone.

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

In the end it will be your “Actions” “Convictions” & “Thoughts” which will determine how you shaped your life.

Do not worry, Rose. I do not bite unless you wish me to.

Nobody goes through life without having their heart broken and one day you'll wake up and it'll be okay.

If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages.

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.

We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.

I don't promote giving up. I promote fighting and winning.

From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself

People order clothes out of a catalogue, put it on an actor and everything is generic.