It's always about a character that I become obsessed with and who refuses to leave me alone.

I want people to feel something in the pit of their stomach. I want my movies, especially the ending, to stay with people long after the credits have rolled.

The secret is you need a director who refuses to walk away and you need a director willing to put their whole career behind the project.

As a director I always look at someone's eyes. How truthful are they? Will this person take me on this journey?

I want to give up every single day of my life, but I can't. I'm obsessed.

I want to give the audience what they want, but not at all costs. I want to leave them with something. I try to do that with every single movie I make.

The only response to stupidity and ignorance was silence

Whenever you see a new day and your simply doing right, you're saving it in the list of your best days indirectly.

Forever and ever, brother, hail. Forever and ever, farewell.

A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit being an artist.

Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.

The Bible clearly reminds us that left to ourselves, we would be lost forever.

To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love...

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.

A dog, however nice he is, and sweet-tempered, doesn't have much of a range of options. A human being does.