If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

The endings for all my characters seem sufficiently human and messy for me to feel comfortable with them. In some ways they have only moved an inch, but sometimes an inch is a great distance.

I feel profoundly blessed. I feel it's a great privilege to make any motion picture.

Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.

You should always make it like it's your last film. That's my personal belief. Every filmmaker is going to have another belief... That's the only way I know to try to make a film that might be good. You got to take it real seriously like it's your last thing.

It's a closing of the mind that happens when you want to be lazy and go with the easiest answers, like the media do all the time in their sound bytes.

You can't force a movie to happen. Movies happen when they're supposed to happen. Everything happens in God's time. I really believe that.