We drew our inspiration from everyday stories..

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it..

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too..

Every project starts with a story..

I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life..

I feel like I've had very few bad experiences but even those I look back on and really feel like if it weren't for them, I wouldn't be where I am. I ….

You can't ride the chairlift and call yourself Edmund Hillary..

I felt a kinship with country music, because country has lyrics that tell stories.

Bad beginnings, bad endings..

He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them..

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead..

Movies were much better in the days when I was doing them..

There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera..

I react emotionally to everything!.

We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find..

The only purpose of the visuals, in any film, is to serve the story..

The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always pl….

I'd like to have a go at directing..

I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not..

In your 20s, you learn. In your 30s, you earn..

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives..