When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very close to what I set out to do. And I'm super-opinionated about what I do and don't like.

I'm always a sucker for a love story.

The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever

My movies are not about being, but becoming.

It's about moments in life that are great but don't last. They don't go on, but you always have the memory and they have an effect on you. That's what I was thinking about.

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

You don't have to be loud. If you know what you want, people respect that.

Forget the audience, make what you want to see

Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you.

Look to the Lord and the power of His grace.

Focus only on what you love. Don't think about what you don't want - think about what you do want. Anything else is just a waste of energy.

Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.

There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul, and which is experienced but once or twice in a lifetime.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.

Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything.

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.

It's not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.