I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it's as simple as that.

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.

In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

When wild the head-wind beat, Thy sovereign Will commanding Bring them who dare to fly To a safe landing.

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.

Be a vessel of forgiveness and kindness in order to be a fountain of peace.

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill?

The pressure performing is something you have to get used to, really really quick.

You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as if every one of them owed you money.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

I love the way men smell. I love the way they taste, their texture, the way they're built.