You can never maintain just pure happiness. In my life, I want full emotion. I want equal parts happiness and sadness.

There's something so glorious in giving control to the world. I think that's what I'm trying to do in my films-control the world but also let it be chaotic, let there be life.

I always say writing is like dreaming, shooting is like living, and editing is like murder, because you take all these gifts that actors give you, and you cut them.

It happens sometimes that when someone has a camera, they change; sometimes they change for the better.

When I made my student film, a feature, nobody wanted to talk to me and I was, like, in the desert for 12 years.

I tell the actors that the biggest gift they can give me is to fail. And that the second gift they can give me is to surprise me.

A lawyer actually has to see all sides of a situation. Lawyers actually might be the most understanding human beings.

There's one rule that I have on my movies, which is that anything that you want to do, you can do. But! There's a flip side to that, which is that anything I want you to do, give it a try also.

Stretch your mind and you will reach beyond your current reality.

Your mother just carried you literally. The one who really gave you to her is the one who really knows about the main problem you were meant to solve!

It happens all too often - people regret that their language and culture are being lost but at the same time decide not to saddle their own children with the chore of preserving them.

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.

In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.

hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater.

I know I can't make everyone happy, but I know I can do the most justice I can possibly do to a character, or any character, if I put my all into it. That's the choice you have to make.

It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

We like investments where the risk is time, not price.