You're always fascinated by what you do, and how other people look at it.

We need Netflix. We in the independent sector more than anybody need Netflix, because they care about what we do.

Some people handle sweets better.

I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

Knowing that Ricky Gervais will never work again means a lot to me. I'm going to make sure of it.

The secret of making movies is having the strongest possible script.

I always find that when I do something that I like, from my heart, then it works.

I was a camp counselor for kids whose moms were on welfare, unfortunately, and right across the camp was the best, most pristine and preppy camp in the universe.

I'm a benevolent dictator.

People love a true story and especially a true story where two people from opposite worlds come together.

Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana.

I might not have been so young, but age alone doesn’t necessarily make you less foolish.

...for to be sunk, though but for an hour in your esteem is a humiliation to which I know not how to submit. -Susan

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

The way I go about making a movie... even the ones that are interview-driven, I go into them not knowing what's going to happen, and feeling my way through.

I had Courtney Love's left bosom out of her dress on my plate in front of me. It was extraordinary. I didn't know where to look.

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.

Indecision is a form of self-abuse - be ready to step up!

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.