Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

I think people are universal.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

I have been so long masterthat I would be master still, or at least that none othershould be master of me.

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.

If you want to know where God is, ask a drunk.

The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.

Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?

The history of the Church is the rise and progress of the kingdom of heaven upon earth, for the glory of God and the salvation of the world.

The problem with movies now is that studios don't take a chance.