As a director, you've got to have quite a few projects going because you never know which one will actually come together with the financing and get the green light.

You can't really just think, "Oh, I want to make something that is going to appeal to every single person in the world." You have to just try to make a movie that comes from your heart.

People love to talk, so let them have fun talking.

If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash.

I thought, "If I can make you feel what it's like for that first super-passionate love, other people might like that too," and, of course, they did.

Since I was a little kid, I did like fairy tale. I did dress up like Little Red Riding Hood. My mom had to make me a cape.

I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.

When I was just five years old, I loved the scary layer and the symbolical power of the red cloak. I made my mom make me that red cloak, and I had to wear it on Halloween, two years in a row.

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

When I talk to film students, I always say, "Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes," because that's such a great learning tool.

Usually, we have some of those nostalgic moments like, "Oh my god, I can't believe we survived that day," because filmmaking is such a wild roller coaster ride.

The gospel which they so greatly needed they would not have; the miracles which Jesus did not always choose to give, they eagerly demanded.

The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.

Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.

I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.

A pitching coach is a manager's best friend. He's handling 12 out of the 25 players on the team.

Energy flows where attention goes.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.