When I made my student film, a feature, nobody wanted to talk to me and I was, like, in the desert for 12 years.

You can never maintain just pure happiness. In my life, I want full emotion. I want equal parts happiness and sadness.

There's something so glorious in giving control to the world. I think that's what I'm trying to do in my films-control the world but also let it be chaotic, let there be life.

I always say writing is like dreaming, shooting is like living, and editing is like murder, because you take all these gifts that actors give you, and you cut them.

It happens sometimes that when someone has a camera, they change; sometimes they change for the better.

I tell the actors that the biggest gift they can give me is to fail. And that the second gift they can give me is to surprise me.

A lawyer actually has to see all sides of a situation. Lawyers actually might be the most understanding human beings.

There's one rule that I have on my movies, which is that anything that you want to do, you can do. But! There's a flip side to that, which is that anything I want you to do, give it a try also.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

Implement an outstanding idea to yield you back a priceless life.

Ships that pass in the night.

Real management is developing people through work.

I feel better about my life every day. My kids get older. My life is very rich and full of wonderful things. I've been very lucky, careerwise.

Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started.

I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.

He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.

You learn to love by loving.

Beadle believed that genetics were inseparable from chemistry-more precisely, biochemistry. They were, he said, "two doors leading to the same room."