Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

I know there's a word called "miracle". But I don't know if there's a meaning inside the word, "miracle

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

State can become threat to individual life, cause of individual liberty.

I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.

God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength.

I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

All the bloomy flush of life is fled.

It's time to be with my brother now