If you try to do a look-alike and an impersonation, then that's just not conducive to good drama.

I'm not interested in doing a simple, straightforward action movie, unless they want to pay me lots of money.

My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.

As a director you want to show the truth of people and sometimes that's unflattering, or it's not something that people want to see.

The thing about Hitchcock is that, however much one dissects him, he still manages to hang onto his mystery. You can never quite get to the bottom of him.

I'm looking for richness, complexity, and characters that have different layers and that you don't really get bored of.

There's so much energy that's needed, for every stage of the process, so I don't want to do something that I'm bored by with characters that I don't like or actors that aren't going to surprise you.

The map? I will first make it.

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!

If I were thinking straight, I'd take you home right now.

The longer I live the more I believe that the greatest enemy of a victorious Christian life is passivity.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.

It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.

Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything.

My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.