I'm very wary of trust, you see..

Almost no one can take on an entire future in one step, much less while reeling emotionally..

Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it..

(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director..

Do not dehumanize others..

Some questions change everything..

The test for me, when I read other people's scripts, is whether I feel like there's something about me that is the best person to tell this story. I ….

We have learned nothing..

Fear is the beginning of wisdom..

I'd rather be a comma than a full stop..

I let the scripts basically be my Bible..

Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing..

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable..

You can make something out of nothing..

Knowledge is after all a non-rivalrous good.

What about the future?" "We'll talk about the future when it gets here..

Life's the longest picture you're ever gonna take..

The headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be..

The new celebrity thing is going to take some time to get used to because I really am not used to that!.

The love of every single one of my lives..

Travel is not about money, it's about courage..