There are lines that just stick with me, like I mean I still can remember it's like every line that I say from Nightcrawler, I mean it's just always ….

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre..

I think it's important for every man to find the right woman and every woman to find the right man..

I always say about that movie [ Brokeback mountain], which I think maybe over time is more understood, is that this is about two people desperately l….

But you need to strive to try and communicate and try and change things in a similar way. And then people can think that's pretentious or whatever, b….

Really, contrary to popular belief, I like to have a good time and not take myself too seriously..

One of the things that I'm so proud of [about] that movie [Brokeback Mountain], was to see, within the past basically 10 years, how much has changed.….

When I was 19, I thought [Brokeback Mountain] was going to be the best movie ever made. And everyone was going to see it and it was just going to be ….

'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up..

I love storytelling, you know, beyond anything. I love a great story beyond a great performance. Storytelling is about what we all do together and ho….

As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together..

I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person..

I think I'm generally - fear, fear is very still, so in terms of that kind of fear - there's so many different kinds of fear, but fear is something, ….

Being a star doesn't last. That's not what life should be about. It's a complete illusion that really has nothing to do with you. For me, finding out….

Peter Sarsgaard, he's an extraordinary actor, and I would say that Peter has really brought into my life and my sister's life a sense of presence as ….

I remember watching Meryl Streep in, The River Wild. There's this scene where she's has a gun pointed at her, it's absurd in a lot of ways. Someone p….

I understand the opposite side of the camera. I have a profound respect for that. I have worked with people who, when you hit that mark, are doing 50….

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow..

I had been brought up in an elementary school where, my first few grades, I remember being specifically told that my teachers were gay. I was just th….

I'm always nervous about it. You know, somehow, without even knowing it, I try and recreate the idea of what it feels like to go in front of an audie….

I'm a very political person, and I make political choices in my movies..