I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.

I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.

You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.

Every great story deserves a great ending

I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.

First rule of Angel Club, you do not talk about Angel Club.

The last 16 years of my daddys life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.

A character is as much about what you do as what you say.

I try to keep my artistic opinions not so much "to myself" but "on myself."

But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.

I get nervous when I fly; I'm used to walking with my feet.

If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.

Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves.

He remembered his home now, and that gave him new determination to succeed. He was fighting for two camps now -- two families.

I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.