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….

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….

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 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….

You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think when you're working with professional actors, it'….

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 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'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..

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

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

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world..

I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you en….

To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride..

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….

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

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

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….