I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.

Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves.

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open.

We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening... we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come.

Be brave, fight for what you believe in and make your dreams your reality

We all know the sound a camera makes when it snaps a picture. Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia’s sake.

I am going to sit there and watch Michael Phelps break my record anonymously? That's almost demeaning to me. It is not almost - it is.

The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.

Don't measure the size of the mountain; talk to the One who can move it.

Both my parents are chefs I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food.

The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan.

Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.