No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

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.

The best light which illuminates your path is your determination!

Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same.

I never allow of any difficulties. The great secret of being useful and successful is to admit of no difficulties.

I'm quite happy to be thrown around and hopefully my leg will stay on.

What can be greater to life than to understand its meaning.

How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.

All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff. Everything else is fake.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.