You think about taking audiences on a journey.

Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.

When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

Confidence is essential, but ego is not.

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

Another day another life Passes by just like mine It's not complicated Another mind Another soul Another body to grow old It's not complicated

I always say wear what makes you feel most confident, and confidence doesn't always come over night.

Shooting film is not for everybody, but if you're crazy enough it might be for you.

Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass.

The most important moments rarely come at a convenient time

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.

As a landscape photographer we should be open to possibilities, for one thing often leads to another.

Zen is a special transmission outside the Canonical Scriptures; it does not depend upon texts.

When it comes to money, if you have it, you may feel that you don't deserve it—guilt. If you don't have it, you may feel that you should have it—guilt.