I'm not going to read reviews like, "I have to do these things." Any good criticism makes you think about your own films and about cinema in general.

We're living in a world that says that if you engage in mass fraud, you'll be rewarded, but if you go down the street and steal an orange juice, you get arrested.

The job of the writer and the filmmaker is not to impose his vision on the reality, but to be inspired by the reality and create a vision out of that.

I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything.

Since Hollywood seems to be more interested in people wearing tights and using powers, there seems to be a fertile ground for movies about real human beings.

It's hard for me to say you have to accept that the world is meaningless and the landscape is there before and after. That's not something we learn much in our culture growing up.

Sometimes we have dreams, but we just can't make them. That's normal.

I think happy and hope is more hopeful when you acknowledge that there's awful things too.

You have to let life come and go.

I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any time.

The actors come and you start seeing things happen for real.

A statement made from the heart has an aroma, it has lights, it has earth andsun and moon. It is colorful and it grasps the attention of those around you, like the sunset.

If we have faith, then we can see the beauty around us. If we don’t then we are just blind followers, not knowing why we are on the path.

The Lord performs mighty wonders and glorious miracles.

The destructive effects of video games are not on boys' cognitive abilities or their reaction times, but on their motivation and their connectedness with the real world.

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

We buy our own toilet paper even here in the White House.

The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

[Politicians] - they'll give you everything you want to your face - and then, as you walk away, they'll shoot you in the back because it's fun to watch you die.

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.