All the discoveries seem to be discoveries of means.

We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.

I'll marry you if you admit that respect, admiration, and trust equals love.

There's no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.

I think maybe written films are better than real films. You can see them in your head and yet everything is exactly as you want it to be.

TRUST took as its starting point the question, What would happen if a movie took the character of a teen-age girl seriously?.

This notion of changing technology interests me. I work on a computer now, and it's not been easy to adjust. I still prefer to have my hands on film when I'm editing.

Perhaps I'm just optimistic.

More and more, even with a measure of success, I'm not sure what it is people are seeing when they see a movie I've made.

I'm often uncertain of what's expected of a movie.

I see (humor) in the smallest things.

The trouble with this whole country is that it's divided up into little puddles with big fish in each one of them.

The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.

I saw great hope in the Sanders campaign - a flawed candidate, not perfect, but pretty damn close. Millions of young people were inspired by him.

I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.

A hug from a samurai girl is warmer than a heap of blankets and more meaningful than a pile of words.

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

"Eureka" is Greek for "This bath is too hot."

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.