I complete what I start..

Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders..

Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the st….

Michael Jackson is everywhere. I can't not listen to what we did because it's everywhere. I listen to it all the time whether I want to or not..

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..

The biggest misconception about me is perhaps that I film all the time and film everything randomly. The truth is I film very little and always when ….

It is that rare film [Moonlight] that comes along once in a while that catches the zeitgeist. This movie is that. I certainly have my fingers crossed….

Do not dehumanize others..

Some questions change everything..

There is one thing where people are always right. It is when they are describing what they have been feeling when watching your film. You cannot say:….

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 more that I see the sexism and misogyny that's coming at me from every direction, the less I think my films have anything to do with sexploitatio….

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..