There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

I think people are universal.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

To change your life, love yourself. To change your community, love others. To change the world, love everyone.

Silence is the invisibility of talking. I'd take half an argument over half a silence any day. And I'd take peace and quiet over a full-blown argument any other day, unless it's Tuesday.

Writing is a never ending journey for me - not only for my own comfort, but as a strong medium for encouraging a healthy process of constructive thinking among my readers

Every transgression and disobedience receives a just recompense of reward, except with those who truly love themselves.

The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility.

I'm determined that Iran will not get a nuclear weapon.

Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

I find it's better to focus on what's in front of you and to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

I waited for a long time and there was nothing but the pain of wanting something I couldn't seem to find.