Truthfully, my films don't get funded, they get adopted - and are made thanks to the generosity of others.

You have to know that your collaborators want you to make the movie that you want. Don't back down because you think it's nice to them. You need to have the film be the way that you want it.

To be a great artist, you have to be willing to take risks and to do things that no one would ever pay you for - at first.

The biggest challenge for me in every film is believing that what I have to say is important enough to have lots of people collaborate to make a whole movie. I work on this belief every day.

The films I find boring are the ones that have no space for the audience's misconceptions.

UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.

"And I love you too." His fingers skate the edge of my jaw, dance briefly over my lips. "You should know that. You have to know that."

Life doesn't come with four choices.

I'm not raising the children, I'm raising the grown ups that they're going to be.

Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'

If you hate my guts and have designs to hurt me, and I see you building a cannon aimed at my house, I am not going to wait for you to finish construction.

Instead of physical objects, (in order to have faith in myself) I have my personal mottos/charms to keep myself motivated and then I smack my chest.