I don't like the idea of agents in a typical form. The idea of agents, to me, brings up the idea of a man in a very boring suit who's not very good looking and doesn't have much attention to style.

It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.

We're not unique. We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.

I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

If somebody has a better idea than me, I'll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it's me that takes the credit anyway!

If you change the rules on what controls you... you will change the rules on what you can control.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot.

We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting?

If you make friends with yourself, you'll never be alone.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.

We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.

I like to hear the sound of form, and I like to hear the sound of it breaking.

The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap.

I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt.

Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!

I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I'll pay more, but it won't solve the problem.