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

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.

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.

In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.

In the therapeutic process based on awareness, there exists no ”I" – it just exists a presence, a light, a love and a silence.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

The Mac defined personal technology, and the iPhone defines intimate technology as a convergence of communications, content and location.

Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.

The information I have about Iran is second hand.

It's a lot easier to say you're a comic than a performance artist.

The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.