I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.

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.

And so we carried on in our little piece of forever.

Allow this poem to carry you beyond yourself, transcending your mortal flesh as you wed yourself with the potentially infinite.

People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.

We're all born with infinite potential and creativity. We all have it in us. Each and every one of us. That's the only truth

Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands.

When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.

The Congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

"I'll be your family now," he says.

God Tris, are you even human?