You've got to love something enough to kill it.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

I play chicken with the train

We are so strangely made

The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.

A man can make a son but a true man would be a father. A lady can have a child, but a real mother raises the child.

Going home, spending time with the family, I feel they're my friends as well, all of them. I look forward to meeting any one of them for a coffee, and when we all get together, I just love it.

I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.

Forgive my grief for one removed Thy creature whom I found so fair I trust he lives in Thee and there I find him worthier to be loved.

Life is an illusion that last too little.

Creativity goes beyond what you already know. What you know is just knowledge.

Having Zoe saved my life. It was my wake-up call. There were so many things I didn't want to pass on to her.