I have great people surrounding me and helping me out. I'm totally in love with directing movies and I hope to do more of it.

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don't watch television.

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.

When you explore your fears then you set yourself free.

A Puritan is a person who lives in the fear that someone somewhere may be having a good time.

I think there's always room for humor, especially when you're talking about really serious issues.

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.

I've met Nicole Kidman, Elton John, loads of people.

An ill agreement is better then a good judgement. [An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.]

The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people.

Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.

A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.

Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible.