I feel like a lot of the films I do, part of the reason I like doing them is I'm not 100 percent sure what it's going to be. It's exciting. I read an….

God is always at work around you..

Back in the '80s, a lot of the images I used were from TV or from films on TV..

Some things go slow, slow, slow, and then - wham! - they're over..

Spin-offs were never really my thing..

If you wanna do a film where you have a big scope, you've got to make your characters relatable and genuine..

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

No one can be cured of being who they are..

I'm sure every film it's going to be like, 'Okay, this is the scene where your shirt gets ripped off.' I'll never be able to keep my shirt on..

The great appear great to us..

I love to sing, so I just figured that I was going to sing or something..

As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films..

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan..

It is by doing anything that we become anyone.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting..

There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well..

I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something ab….

I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it..

Love emerges at the point of a lacking word, and one offers one's being to fill the lack..

Those who are not good to others are bad to themselves..

Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry..