I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.

I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past.

Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection.

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.

Don't differentiate between 'This is a job' and 'This is what I'm doing for fun.' It's all simultaneous.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

The things that are really out of control, and scary, are emotions - of people around you, that are unpredictable, or those in yourself which are unpredictable.

If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself.

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

Truth on our level is a different thing from truth for the jellyfish.

In this case the time is not so important for me, the person asking for commitment is.

Man's meanness is a fuse in search of a flame.

Theology without proclamation is empty, proclamation without theology is blind.

When people have been oppressed for so long

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited.

I'm not interested in who suffered the most. I'm interested in people getting over it.