When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can take place.

Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws.

Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.

Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored.

I have a really, really hard time sitting down and watching a TV show, except I'm apparently willing to watch the same episode of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' like, seven times.

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to do with what's at the heart of a film.

I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.

The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being.

Talent was not rare

The papers say we're married, but it's the heart that writes the love story.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, as occasion serves.

Healthcare has been much worse. George W. Bush was destroying the health care system. Obamacare, all it's like doing is keeping prices from going up more rapidly.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

The stereotypes we pretend that we reject are ingrained in our DNA.