You become the movie you are making.

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.

Summertime is always the best of what might be.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

Thankfully, we didn't stop at Malta. I think Malta was thankful, too.

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

I think I'm a shy, self-conscious person who thinks he's being looked at and tries to look okay. Not in a hottie, narcissistic way necessarily.

We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.

People in the media, it makes their day when someone they say is a five-star artist goes platinum.

The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment.

Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.