I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

To be a creative person and be a professional, as an artist you have to be able to withstand pain, rejection, and for some, a lot of bad feelings, but you have to be able to look through those.

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

By 1988, I was living in New York myself.

To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself.

You are always factoring in the economy within the process of creating something, and making decisions that seem both fearless and full of fear.

I'm a version of the same person.

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his comedy even when they touch on tragedy.

The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films.

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.

I'm interested in what actors reveal about themselves through the structure of the character.

The second direction of prayer lies in us addressing our own circumstances and changing them ourselves

Some people like to hear and not see, so we have the radio. There are so many different ways that we can get and participate in the arts.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

Americans want to be exposed to the opportunities that a changing world can offer.

Man has injured every animal he has touched.

I've known Johnny Depp since I was 19.

Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.

There is no effort without error or shortcoming.

I believe we came from nowhere. We show up, and we are now here. It's all the same. It just is a question of spacing.