You don't have to be loud. If you know what you want, people respect that.

When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very close to what I set out to do. And I'm super-opinionated about what I do and don't like.

I'm always a sucker for a love story.

The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever

My movies are not about being, but becoming.

It's about moments in life that are great but don't last. They don't go on, but you always have the memory and they have an effect on you. That's what I was thinking about.

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

Forget the audience, make what you want to see

Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you.

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

God pity the poor novelist.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.

She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all.

Always shun whatever may make you angry.

To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.

It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.

My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.

Have an attitude of gratidude and you will have more to be grateful for; have a complaining spirit and you will attract more to complain about.