You're often trying to fix a script by shooting it.

We love the quality in a person, who can see themselves clearly and isn't ashamed of who they are.

What's great is when you're shooting at the same hotel you're living in, you finish shooting, put your stuff down, take an elevator and go to bed.

You're just always looking for something new. That's why a lot of people bounce between TV and movies. You have the ability to try something else.

Most of the guys like sticking to the script and doing just what's written. If they're exploring, they're exploring ways of doing the script.

What you realize is that a lot of actors want to be directed. They're there to do the best job they can for the director. They have a lot of questions, and your job is to have answers.

You'll never meet a nicer person, let alone a nicer actress, than Mary Steenburgen.

We always feel safest, I think, around the most dangerous person who's on your side, more than the nice good person who's on your side.

It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying.

Outer beauty is transient, but the beauty of the soul is everlasting.

I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.

Patch is the last person you want to antagoonize. He doesn't hold grudges because the people who cross him tend to disappear quickly.

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

You cannot know wine by the barrell.

In this world we walk on the roof of hell gazing at flowers

The brave only know how to forgive.

I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.

Accomplish something every day of your life.