When it feels scary to jump, that’s exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do.

When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.

I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone­­, but a movie director and writer was beyond my role of understanding.

We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.

I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.

I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

I think my films kind of walk this line that Im proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.

In Unity there is strength; We can move mountains when we're united and enjoy life - Without unity we are victims. Stay united.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.

Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by his own choice.

Wine is the healthiest and most health-giving of drinks.

I am sure as I grow older I will understand more about my own feelings and how to put them in a song.

Lansens is a willing storyteller.... As a writer, she desires a particular kind of reader, one who wants above all to be transported--who might sit at her knee, the hearth.

The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful impetus for change.

Second best is not good enough really. Although if someone turned around now and said 'you will be promoted, but you will come in second' then I would take it.