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

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.

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

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

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

When I recall memories, it all seems like a film, not a reality.

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.

Like the hub of a wheel, the church’s corporate life is an extension of the good news that God was in Christ reconciling the whole world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them.

Why do I have to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid.

My parents were incredibly inclusive.

Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.

I started crying 20 seconds into the movie and didnt stop till it was over.

You did not bring down two of the royal guard in an unceremonious heap because the woman in the middle tripped.

For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.

The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.