Independence is a state of mind. Independence is spirit without category.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

I think our life is a series of adventures.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

Every great dream, meet an opposing views.The certainty within our spirit made the dream reality.

The people who get what they’re after are very often the ones who just stick around long enough.

Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.

American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.

Love hard when there is love to be had.

Directing is a very long process, and I have to be in love with it if I want to give up two years of my life and live with it from beginning to end!

Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground.

Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.

Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.