You have to understand where the camera needs to me. There were times where you were suddenly aware where the cameras were, then you were in a different place and it didn't feel like the same movie.

I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.

I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.

I’ve always been better at informing the audience through images than through words, but I took on a script that was so dialogue intensive, that the words had to do all the informing.

I've never been happy doing stock work; I've never been happy thinking that I haven't changed something.

I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.

I don't put on my best clothes to make a film, my Sunday best.

I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but I'm just not.

The spiritual force overcomes all other forces.

As the years go by, it’s our relationships that will leave us the best memories to celebrate endlessly.

She fantasized sometimes too about killing him a little: a little poison in his pudding, a little flick-flick-flick with a fillet knife at his throat.

It is better to revel in life than to wallow in it.

You might be a redneck if your house doesn't have curtains, but your truck does.

All my friends were girls. Then my mom's strident feminism for years where men were thought of as the enemy, I just didn't know what the right way to be a man was.

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

This army stays here until the last wounded man is removed. Before I leave them to the enemy, I will lose many more men.

On some of my darkest days, Lucifer's the one who comes and gives me an ice cream.

There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break.