I am always striving to be the best that I can be as a filmmaker.

I'm a big believer of "when there is a will there is a way" but from the studio's perspective I think it just seems like a bigger leap than you can get a sort of bureaucratic move to make.

Every time I trust my instincts I land on my feet and every time I don't, I go, "Why didn't I trust my instinct?"

Here is the thing, you can make a dope movie and it may never see the light of day. I am crazy proud of my first movie.

I think you don't break new ground in anything in life if you are willing to just follow the rules.

I believe locations should try to be and evoke the characters in a movie.

I am a loyalist and I really absolutely love film.

I love the opportunity to shoot digital because you can shoot so many takes, it's really malleable, it's a ton of fun, and it is easy.

The opportunity to shoot and get the depth out of the film - that I don't think you can get out of digital - is a huge deal for me.

The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables...

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

We are no longer awkward younglings. Our enemies may be fearsome, but so are we. It is time we remind them of that.

You're either living on purpose or performance.

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great big vulgar bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.

I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.

There's some muscle group around your shoulders that seizes up during the perfection dance and doesn't let go until you are asleep, or alone. Or maybe it never really lets go at all.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.

It isn't about games, for me, personally, and it never really was. It was about creating something - anything - far bigger than yourself.