My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.

My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

Does Uncle Bob have anything?""I heard he has an STD.""I mean on the women.""Oh, I have no idea if they have any STDs.

We fool ourselvesinto thinkingwe’re strongthen complainthe rest of our livescrippled bythe consequences.

Librarians are on the front lines of an invisible struggle over our information diet and, for better or worse, the scales are not tipping in their direction.

Regrets are for wusses.

Maybe we should wait....wait for him to kill another five or six, huh?

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.

I do my best when I'm surrounded by women. I enjoyed that on the Charlie's Angels experience.

As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.

Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.

The goal of the Redemption is the redemption of truth.