I'm such a romantic at heart.

Sometimes you have to do the things that scare you and that are outside of your comfort zone and challenge yourself.

Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.

That's what you want: you want projects that you fall in love with. I don't think you pick your projects; you fall in love with them.

What scares me is not living up to be a good enough father to my son and letting down my family - not being there enough and not being able to give enough of yourself.

Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

I'm very tired, but this is what every filmmaker dreams about: that their $15 million, under-the-radar film is now being seen by so many people.

Turing was fearless. He's extremely direct, which can be seen as socially awkward, and that becomes both his big obstacle but also, in many ways, his strength.

You’re not mending anything, remember, Sand? The hedge.” He paused and shook his head at himself. “And Perrotte’s away for a few minutes, and you’re talking to yourself again.

The light in meonly wants toreach the darkness in you.

He is my unicorn, though... That's how I felt falling in love with him, as if I'd found a creature of myth.

I feel that when two people are married - not that you have to totally give up your career - you have to spend time with one another, get to know each other more, just share things with each other.

Trust is hard to get from actors, and for me to give to actors.

Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

"Yes, but that's our strongest weak point."

One can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all.

I have pursued her, as love hath pursued me