Nobody's talking about movies the way they're talking about their favorite TV shows.

I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating...anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you.

You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

What are the stories you want people to tell about you?

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle with no answer.

We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit.

A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.

I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.

We're going to make that Lone Star shine again.

I like the idea that neither makes any romantic move until their philosophies are aligned.

At the end of the day after a few speeches and a lot of campaign stops, I'm more energized than drained.

Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.

Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.