You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

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.

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

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

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

Be willing to constantly travel towards the dreams of your future and don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

You can´t gossip about somebody you prayed for. (sb on your prayer list)

I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

Do you have the discipline to be a free spirit?

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change.

I'm very grateful to have my kids in my life; they're my greatest teachers. But to pretend it's always easy is just not really true.

I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity forever.

The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.