When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

When it feels scary to jump, that’s exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do.

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.

I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone­­, but a movie director and writer was beyond my role of understanding.

We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.

I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.

I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

I think my films kind of walk this line that Im proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.

Maintain a persistent focus of what you want. You will attract the divine force to bring it into existence.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

There's talk he's become emotionally unhinged.

Some journeys lead nowhere, but they set the spirit free

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.

I'd say I'm a good cook. I have a lot of German recipes that I can make - schnitzel, meatballs and things with cabbage. I love cabbage.

...99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was due to human-made greenhouse gases.

I try and get about eight hours of sleep every single night. And I like to think that I drink more water than anyone, ever.

Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

I read once that elegance is a privilege of age. I thought, that's so true. You get more comfortable with yourself as you get older.