Pride in what and who you are is a strong foundation, but don't be defined by your oppression; use your anger, don't let it use you.

I like being able to do anything. I think that's healthy, doing anything and everything, rather than just getting completely obsessed with one particular genre or particular kind of work.

The filmmakers I really love are the ones that let me look through their eyes for a while. They have an aesthetic and social point of view.

Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are in some way love letters to the silent era.

I don't want to get pigeonholed just doing just family films and fantasy films... I don't really want to get pigeonholed just doing anything in particular.

Oh, sheep. I've lost all my sobbing colours.

Some people have two full-time jobs: Working to support their lifestyles and creating illusions to impress the society and their peers.

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage.

In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building.

All the past has done is generated the you that you are now. Dwelling on the past isn't going to change anything.

I don't believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything for granted he'd take it away.

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.

I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years

Be like a child - clear, loving, spontaneous, infinitely flexible and ready each moment to wonder and accept a miracle.

I associate my childhood with two things, mainly: the North Devon countryside and a sense of connection to another world.

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.