You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible you might even forget yourself.

If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

I don't know how, or whether it is even possible to predict what the world will look like the next day. I simply have to close my eyes, and wait until tomorrow in order to find out.

At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever.

It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.

Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.

I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.

Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.

Lord, my life is but a mist (James 4:14), yet through Your power, the things I give myself to can have an eternal impact. I am Your vessel

The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

Terry Gilliam has spoken scathingly about my preference for physical comfort. I have come to the conclusion that this is very much his problem.

When you don't believe in anything except not dying, you don't really believe in anything.

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

In adults, dependability is the fruit of maturity; in a child, it is the seed.

You can talk film theory till you're blue in the face, but in the end, the thing that may haunt you most about a movie is a pair of eyes.

Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better.

As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.