I was just trying to make a nice little movie... It wasn't until I saw it all put together that I realized this was something remarkable.

There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

Any good movie is filled with secrets.

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

The unconscious is our best collaborator.

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies.

I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

You send a message by what you say and what you do. If words aren’t supported with consistent actions, they will ring hollow.

Quality of life does not depends up on the branded product that you use. It totally depends up on the quality of your thoughts and quality you maintain to express your thoughts

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

I believe that the greatest teachers create thinking students.

To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy.

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

Never will this prevail, that the things that are not are — bar your thought from this road of inquiry.

Hmm... Death by mini bar, how glamorous.

It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek is like a beautiful opera, but way better.