Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.

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.

You must be intentional and decisive about what you want to achieve during your solitude time.

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

It takes years to build on to a dream but only a second to shatter.

You don't get it boy... this isn't a mudhole... its an operating table. (KRAKKKKK) And I'm the surgeon.

I'm a Cynster--I've been raised to acquire, defend, and protect. My family is the core of my existence--without a family, without children, I'd have nothing to protect, no reason to acquire.

Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him.

As leopard feels at home with leopard.

Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.