You gain wisdom and you don't make the same mistakes.

One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it.

The advantages of a virtual production pipeline are that you can reduce the footprint of your production down to the size of the stage.

The real tough thing is working with actors. I'm a designer and used to working with artists, so there is some familiarity with the personalities that come up, but actors are their own animal.

I never feel like I'm the guy that's got all the answers.

I love the interplay with other smart and creative people who have got better ideas than I do and that I can bring something to, as well.

The fact that there are awards and exhibitions and some people know who I am is just all gravy. I'm lucky to just work in an industry where I get to play so much.

My problem has been with purely digital films. I feel the danger there is that the kind of short-cuts you end up having to take are the ones that are most telling in the main characters.

You want to feel appreciated, definitely. I think I've been very lucky to have a long enough career, so that I do get this kind of feedback.

Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one

worms have crawled up your nose and eaten your wits.

Cats will be cats.

Small child once you were a hope, a dream. Now you are a reality. Changing all that is to come. A love to hold our hearts forever.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

I do love wearing heels but my feet can't be in them all day long. I want to have fun and dance so I need to be comfortable.

No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.

What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.

The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream.