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.

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.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.

I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can’t love me.

I need to learn to be more assertive.

A board member should be perfectly willing to leave at any time and willing to make the tough calls.

The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.

I'm always scared when I fight. But that fear is what keeps me more alert and more focused. It's good to have fear.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

I think in this country [UK] we could do with rather less political correctness and more straight talking across the board.