Like all independent movies, the first thing you're looking for is a name actor who will justify your financing.

Theres a kind of dream that movies sell to people: You can start as the lowliest person and rise to the top. Hit Me doesnt sell this fantasy.

Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?

I love moving through long spaces and being enclosed.

You hear this said about actors sometimes, that they're fearless, but she [ Maggie Gyllenhaal] really is.

The problem with most love stories in my opinion is that they're too simplistic.

The movie that made me want to make movies was "Blue Velvet."

You don't make movies about "men" and "women." You make movies about this guy and this woman and if you get them right, you'll automatically connect with a lot of people.

I think a lot of young women are probably fearful or embarrassed or cautious or hiding whatever their particular sexuality might be. From the most odd to the just slightly abberrant.

Of course imagination is the beginning of creation. Without imagination there can be no creation.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years

God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding we are channels made for sharing.

I first started using the internet back when a 14.4 modem was considered fast. I think I was about 11 or 12, and it fascinated me that you could look at all these different things on your computer.

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.

One day I will forgive you; until then there are scabs everywhere that you have touched me.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefitted.

I have always cautioned partners that I considered three years a minimum in determining whether we were "performing".