I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge, to show that I could.

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question.

Happy endings make me puke.

Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.

The best films are because of nobody but the director.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

I simply think there's life after movies. I have to adhere to this philosophy, and therefore I like other things, and I have other passions. None are as big as movie-making, but they exist.

I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.

There is no other position and no other place where you will be as happy as the place of your calling

They cannot scare me with their empty spacesBetween stars—on stars where no human race is.I have it in me so much nearer homeTo scare myself with my own desert places.

People who say we are just preaching "extreme grace" must not understand how extremely gracious our Father is.

When friends and acquaintances are telling you [that] you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember what you always thought of their opinions in the past.

I guess anyone with a beautiful body, man or woman, loves to be looked at, but to admit such a thing is a little rough at times. That's why it's hard to get people to pose.

The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.