I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.

Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

Dawn is born at midnight.

The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are happy; but the good secure.

I'm a huge Kevin Youkilis fan.

To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise.

You don’t forget. You just move past it. Let go. Be who you were supposed to be instead of who they make you feel like you should be

Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.

Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.

Fascistic leaders are aggressively macho and chauvinistic. They are xenophobic about people who they portray as outsiders or some sort of threat to the nation or as weaklings they can denounce.