I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film..

The biggest challenge was to make sure that we are looking at things honestly and truthfully. We weren't making an apologist film. That was the tough….

Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why..

An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it..

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words..

The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond..

But it was an ending..

It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively..

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas..

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film..

Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so..

The power of a good film is to engage you and draw you into its world..

You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide..

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film..

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft..

What is worth having is worth working for..

I definitely take a lot of bad pictures!.

When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly ..

What you see you become..

A woman never sees what we do for her, she only sees what we don't do..

I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and e….