I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

I think people are universal.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

Look how often the unexpected happens - yet we still never expect it.

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.

Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.

I play hard. So the critical stuff doesn't surprise me or bother me.

The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.

I can't stand black guys. I would never touch one. It's gross.

I get scared as crap to perform but I push myself to do it. I don't know what I would be doing without it.

I stopped drinking almost immediately after I had ready access to liquor, when I got to college. It almost immediately lost its appeal for me.

Cinema is like dream.

You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy.