Unhappy endings can be as cheap as happy endings.

The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.

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

When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context.

You're not supposed to become something else so you can get more. You're supposed to stay you and get through as yourself, because at least then you can count on that, and you don't have to ask yourself who you are half the time.

What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity.

That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous and funny. That's part of being human.