Since Hollywood seems to be more interested in people wearing tights and using powers, there seems to be a fertile ground for movies about real human beings.

We're living in a world that says that if you engage in mass fraud, you'll be rewarded, but if you go down the street and steal an orange juice, you get arrested.

The job of the writer and the filmmaker is not to impose his vision on the reality, but to be inspired by the reality and create a vision out of that.

I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything.

It's hard for me to say you have to accept that the world is meaningless and the landscape is there before and after. That's not something we learn much in our culture growing up.

Sometimes we have dreams, but we just can't make them. That's normal.

I think happy and hope is more hopeful when you acknowledge that there's awful things too.

I'm not going to read reviews like, "I have to do these things." Any good criticism makes you think about your own films and about cinema in general.

You have to let life come and go.

I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any time.

The actors come and you start seeing things happen for real.

Those who do not weep, do not see.

Some of the greatest advances happen when people are bold enough to speak their truth and listen to others speak theirs.

It's alright to die cause death is the only thing you haven't tried

You had better be ready to change your mind when needed.

Don't be reluctant to give of yourself generously, it's the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness.

We went west willingly--because we had to.

On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.]

People may think I'm wildly obnoxious.

To love and live beloved is the soul's paradise.