Why are people saying it's too soon? Like the people on that flight, we need to agree about what to do about terrorism. And I think we need to have that conversation now.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

You're trying to create a screenplay and your screenplay is there to give you a structure, rigidity, situational awareness, who the characters are, what do they want, what's the shape of the thing.

You face challenges and you have to make choices. You're weighing the necessary responsibility toward reality and authenticity and of course the need to create a compressed drama over two hours.

In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.

You sort of can't talk about the post production unless you talk about what comes first.

The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional.

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.

I think when you think of my films, I think hopefully you think of an extreme sort of real unfolding, real-time, performed, feeling semi-improvised, you know what I mean, all that.

There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different.

Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.

The Noblest form of Affection

People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all.

Always do your best to be yourself. Learn to listen to your inner-voice. This is your true authenticity

I am a hopeful romantic. - Charlotte, In the Shadow of Angels

Apostasy from Islam is a crime and is punishable by death.

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar.

Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.

If I read the newspaper I come out dirtier than I went in. If I read my Bible, I come out cleaner than I went in, and I like being clean!

[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.