My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.

In horror movies today its lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.

My movies, in general, I have the impression that when they finish of course they're never originally what you had in mind.

I would love to stay alone when I'm creating.

I could feel the real interaction between directing and acting, when an actor or an actress really suggests very interesting things.

My first cut is always pretty similar to the final cut.

There are billions of people in the world, and each one of them has their own view of reality.

A true friend let’s you know that the door is always open, even when it’s closed.

What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in students who want to write, the mystery of how artistic talent unfolds.

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of what it is to be human.

Of course he loves me. I’m his sister.” “Blood isn’t love,” said Magnus, and his voice was bitter.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

Life is too short not to do a little practical joking.

Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have always received more than I asked for. God may delay, but He always comes.

Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?