I'm really glad Westerns have had a revival. Hopefully our little resurgence will last a while.

As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.

I think that's my approach: If it feels right for a scene to be whole, to hold on without cutting for a long time, then that's great. But other scenes, they don't want it.

Fear is the impotence of the soul.

And a weak person will find it easier to take what someone else has earned rather than risk working hard and achieving something on his own.

Cyrus is the meat and potatoes of my life, but Prudence was a cupcake I could enjoy just for the sheer sweetness of being with her.

Women distrust men too much in general and too little in particular.

Those who neglect the lessons of their past are doomed to no future.

If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they think he's crazy. The singer is presumed to be happy and the talker unhappy.

The best people in the world aren't those who never fail - but those who fail and learn something from it. I hope that your goal in life isn't to slide safely into death not having screwed up much.

Someone can be mentally ill, but if they are young and beautiful and their life is going well, people don't notice because at that point the cracks are almost imperceptible.

What use is wizardry if it cannot save a Unicorn?

The fight for survival is the fight