I've begun to believe more and more that movies are all about transitions, that the key to making good movies is to pay attention to the transition b….

There's a difference between failures and things that are bad..

If you look across a host of measures at adoption studies, fraternal v. identical twin studies, twins-raised-apart studies, the history of early chil….

A fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong, and chooses to do wrong..

The world doesn't want you to know. They want you to believe. But there is a big difference between believing and knowing. Should you believe in your….

I don't intentionally make deep movies..

[Libertarianism] is about curbing state power to let people be and do what they want. Liberalism is about using state power to make people do and be ….

The actor's relationship to the crew is really a big dynamic that influences everything. When actors are assholes, it becomes problematic. When actor….

There's not ever much of anything going on in my head..

The primary reason we do too much is that we have never taken the time to discover that portion of what we do that makes the biggest difference..

[My vision of America is] a good vision. Actually the best is on TV. I wanted to shoot all the pictures off the TV. No one would have known the diffe….

I can resist you or flee from you or try my hardest not to respond to you, but it makes no difference. You fall in love with me, and I with you". Dan….

Those that innovate the future understand history the best..

Ontogeny re-capitulates phylogeny..

I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opi….

Success isn't something that occurs. Success is something that you create.

For Builders, the real definition of success is a life and work that brings personal fulfillment and lasting relationships and makes a difference in ….

I must have true love or nothing..

Those who are dead are not dead They're just living in my head..

The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revel….

For us, performance is everything. If we can get great actors in there who like us, and we really like, we feel pretty confident that we can make a m….