That's what you want: you want projects that you fall in love with. I don't think you pick your projects; you fall in love with them.

Sometimes you have to do the things that scare you and that are outside of your comfort zone and challenge yourself.

Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.

What scares me is not living up to be a good enough father to my son and letting down my family - not being there enough and not being able to give enough of yourself.

Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

I'm very tired, but this is what every filmmaker dreams about: that their $15 million, under-the-radar film is now being seen by so many people.

Turing was fearless. He's extremely direct, which can be seen as socially awkward, and that becomes both his big obstacle but also, in many ways, his strength.

I'm such a romantic at heart.

A healthy attitude is contagious

Never let yourself be seduced by any problem, no matter how difficult.

[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.

In a thousand fields the welfarists, statists, socialists, and interventionists are daily driving for more restrictions on individual liberty.

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different.

When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.

I don't know why people would be interested in what I do. Maybe they feel how I feel. Maybe it's because we're all missing something, and I just happen to wear that on my sleeve.