When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

I think people are universal.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

Yes, King Eirik, I can't do this alone. I'm not a knight or even a fighter for that matter. I'm just a normal boy, who is looking for his Grandfather.

Truth flows from universal law, not personal views.

My heart burns for the deliverance of Africa.

Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.

Neutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing.

I would turn on the TV, but its so embarassing.

A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

Even the good can become careless without the Lord's being there to chasten.