Write me, so it delights me in such a way to torment me.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more...

Where there is hunger, law is not regarded; and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.

To this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain residing forever in earthly things, Christ did not come. Christ stopped at Eboli.

Half the audience gets where I'm coming from and half the audience is like, "Wait a minute. What does that mean?"

As an observer of markets - whenever everyone focuses on one thing - like Greece and Europe - maybe they miss issues that are far more important - such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

I'm pretty much a character-driven film director and my movies are smaller. I don't do a lot of coverage. I use lots of master shots.

You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people.

Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii.