When you love something, it never goes away.

I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.

I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.

For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.

Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

My father is so jolly, and I live a really happy life. I think that's why all my interest in the darker things in films comes up: because I'm curious about things I don't live in.

Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.

I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.

What have you gained since you haven't prayed? What will you lose if you pray?

In doing you're not, rather in your non-doing you really are!

There is no pathos more bitter than that of parting from someone we have never met.

I love a cool bralette paired with a high-waisted jean, maybe with Chanel suspenders and a good platform shoe.

I have a tremendous passion for fitness, I love challenges and I am a very driven guy.

All music is good music, if it touches your soul.

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.