A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

Any good movie is filled with secrets.

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

The unconscious is our best collaborator.

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

I was just trying to make a nice little movie... It wasn't until I saw it all put together that I realized this was something remarkable.

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies.

I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

Peace of mind comes from keeping people's opinion far away from self perception

A story is nothing but a lie. An illusion. And that illusion only works if we trust in it.

If I felt we had alienated the Unionists, it would worry me because we've spent a great deal of time trying to open up discussion and dialogue with the Unionist Parties.

Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life.

The only valid cure for any kind of depression is the acceptance of real suffering. To climb out of it any other way is simply laying the foundation for the next depression.

The people of Aleppo have suffered like no one else for so long. There has to be a political solution.

An idea in the head is like a rock in the shoe; I just can't wait to get it out.

Fashion creates a bit of a dream

You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.