There's something really nice about missing the person you're with. To have someone be apart enough to force independence and to also look forward to seeing that person.

Rather than look at a marriage as two people morphing into one thing, you could see two individuals who are choosing to form a partnership.

My directing is really weird. Everything is based on whether it's working or not. I don't try to fix something if it's not working, I'll just change it.

In the 10 years that I've been a professional filmmaker, the film part of the film industry is really disappearing, right in front of our eyes.

I think I'll try to keep working in film for a little bit. There's something still kind of magical about it, that I don't want to let go of.

Most of my horror inspiration is really older stuff and really new stuff.

The more that I work with people that I don't know, the more I invite somebody in who's potentially going to really hate being there.

I guess I probably see myself as a director. If I had to choose, I think that that's the aspect of the process that I'm most excited by.

I'm usually two projects ahead. It's hard for me because I don't have a really long attention span.

My relationship with my wife is fraught with all of the problems that any couples face, but there is a sense of humor that we have about it and a real desire to want to make it better.

If you're a working mom, you're still expected to be a super-mom at home, buy organic food, put dinner on the table every night, and do all the research into preschools. It's really hard.

the grandeur of God reveals itself through simple things

That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call "personality", or maybe even "pain".

In any case, it is not love, but friendship, that truly eludes you.

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

The little things that you do From across the room I see you sendin' me clues They're in the way You make me move

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

There's a lot of negative things trying to pull people down, and I think people respond when you tell them that hey, there are good things up ahead.

Well if I was hanging out with The Bellas, I'd be pretty big too.

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

Everyone romanticizes somebody.