When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write...

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

I think people are universal.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

Success-minded people know that the greatest enemy to today's success is yesterday's success.

Never take advice from a donkey.

Father, I believe in Thy Word!

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.

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

This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Everything in the Universe was as the Creator willed it - nothing superfluous, nothing lacking - a harmony.

I don't think fundamentally we should ban him [Donald Trump], I don't think we can go around doing that.

Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby.