On the one hand, you're the same person, but as you get older, you change somewhat, and you never know how it's going to affect your work.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

Relationships have their ups and downs, however if the downs outweigh the ups, then its probably time to hit the door

Growing up, I used to climb out my window onto the roof and look up at the stars. There, in the quiet, I would write stories inside my head.

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

My family and I are so close, it's important to have a close knit relationship and to make time to spend with each other, especially at the holidays.

If you have something to say and say nothing, you are really telling a lie.

More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments.

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go. There are certain birthdays that make you revalue your life