To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me.

I've never seen, heard, nor smelled an issue that was so dangerous it couldn't be talked about. Hell yes, I'm for debating anything!

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.

I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life kind of a detective story.

My hand trembles, my heart does not.

Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on.

There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.

Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.

We shoot double episodes in 15 days in Los Angeles.

I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done.

There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.

You are a goddess. You are a catch. You are, like, the outcome of every self-help book ever written.

The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what?

I can't take one breath, not one single breath, without knowing that I love you.

Manstein is a man of illusions. ... He believes Hitler will listen to facts.

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo.

Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few simple principles.

Effective leaders have the ability to consistently move themselves and others to action because they understand the “invisible forces” that shape us