I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not realistic you run int….

I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you….

I think that there's an infinite amount of places where you can stick a camera. There's an infinite amount of choices of what could be going on. Ther….

I think religion is often very different from spirituality. Religion is often about rules and people trying to control our lives who are actually ver….

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it..

Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story..

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances..

I think people are people and if their feelings are real and truthful, they can connect..

I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker..

I've spent a life loving women and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to..

I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it gets, something good will come along - someth….

I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I sort of ignored my requirements. I….

People have been screaming about the end of times forever, it's always the end of times. But there's just so much evidence that the world is changing….

Film is a great tool to play with time, going back and forth through time, or speeding time up and slowing it down and do stuff like that. That's som….

For too long we have been taking, and the Earth has been giving. But that free-for-all, that all-you-can-eat buffet, it's over. The salad bar is clos….

I don't think I make genre films. I think studios try to sell films as genres because they know how to do that. There's nothing wrong with that. I do….

You can't look at the Noah story and not see some kind of environmental connection. The Creator wants to start over. He wants creation to be given a ….

Also expressionistic filmmaking - making the audience feel like they were inside the characters' heads. And so we create all these different types of….

But steady-cams are very different than hand-helds, because hand-held gives you that verite feel..

Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting..