You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

Without Freedom or Liberty, creativity can not exist.

If you have felt any ounce of fear, insecurity, and uncertainty during your work day, then you might be an entrepreneur.

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work.

I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.

All of our effort should be focused on protecting the religious liberties and freedom of conscience for those Americans that profoundly disagree with the decision.

I get Head and Tail like a quarter... in that order.

What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.

Tact is rubbing out another's mistakes, not rubbing them in.

I was big and fat and had weird parents.