The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.

Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.

When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

Confidence is essential, but ego is not.

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

You think about taking audiences on a journey.

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detective boss.)

Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry and what we perceive is how we live.

I live in harmony.No happiness has to been shown.P.C.M. Hermans

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

If you want to feel a certain way, feel it now.

The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.

Sometimes you need coffee, and sometimes you need a Bloody Mary.

Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.

Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.

You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.