Do you not see the Madonna always beside the tabernacle?.

For me and my films I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just visual, it's audio as well. It's emotional and I want yo….

Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry..

There are things about which I don't even talk to myself..

I get pigeonholed into type-A personality characters, but I'm really not type A. I'm kind of a spaz..

I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another....

I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it..

The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and cr….

You cannot predict the future, but you can create it..

I've had the opportunity to do a wide range of stuff, a lot of different characters and they've all had their own kind of thing..

Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags along behind the jocks -….

I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character..

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't..

Most things don't work like they are supposed to work..

Gifts make friends and friends make gifts..

All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be..

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly..

Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing..

I like to listen the blues and some classical..

My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally, no one wanted to publish it, but ….

As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work..