Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

Art would be useless if the world were perfect.

If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.

A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.

The rhythm of daily action aligned with your goals creates the momentum that separates dreamers from super-achievers .

If I don't have pressure, I don't function.

I am fascinated by air. If you remove the air from the sky, all the birds would fall to the ground. And all the planes, too.

At another year I would not boggle Except that when I jog I joggle.

I'm definitely guilty of thinking something is funny but thinking the audience won't. Then three years later I will finally try it and it'll kill them. I got to give them more credit.

To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.

I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.