Video games are perfect to make into films because they are so visual.

Everybody needs to go to Mongolia just to see what it is to be a human being again.

There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname.

Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.

Bringing all 45 members of my crazy family together, and watching them argue is super awesome. It's good to do it just once a year.

At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.

I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.

I've been really into boyfriend blazers, I like mixing tweeds with floral fabrics. The masculine and feminine look.

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

What separates a weak dreamer and a great dreamer is who is wishing and waiting or who is willing and working.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?

Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.

Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

And smile, smile, smile.

The more you own, the more it owns you.

You can't go through life trying to please everyone.

And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth are very close, and that something beautiful rests between.

Trying to find a heart that's not walking away.