Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you shouldn't view it as a mistake.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

I think people are universal.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

it's definitely best for little children to have a regular life, especially if they can regulate it themselves.

Whether you dream big or dream small, chances are your dream will come true if you believe in it and really work hard on it.

Rests always sound well.

Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Las Vegas is the most honest fake city in the world.

One play can change your momentum forever.