When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.

The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.

When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

You can't write something to please someone.

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.

You've all been so sure that life is good that I've never been able to disbelieve it. Never will be able to.

You mustn't let your emotions get the better of you. There is a great deal to be angry about, but anger doesn't change things.

life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

As I started to buy cars, I didn't know that I was building a collection. I just wanted the cars I was dreaming about. Once you drive a good one, it is like having a fever.

What polluters do is raise the standards of living for themselves, while lowering the quality of living for everybody else, and they do that by escaping the disciplines of the free market.

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.

First, I say that he draws near to those who make peace with him. For God is the One who brings about peace; and where else should peace dwell than in peace?

Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.