Nothing teaches you like getting leveled. And I got leveled in my early 30s. Nothing went exactly the way I thought it would.

With this sunrise somehow I felt I was exactly where I was supposed to be... Have faith, the light seemed to announce.

Most of us float with the river and there are a few people who move the river. Robert DeNiro is definitely one of them.

It was when I was on the set of Dead Poets Society.There was actor,his name was Norman Lloyd. One day he took us all aside and said, "You guys don't even understand what a powerful experience you're having. You don't really understand what a gift this is." We were going, "What does he mean?" It was that really wonderful opportunities aren't to be taken for granted. I often found that it had embedded itself in my memory.

You can't keep wanting to be 20 years old. Everybody knows that, but what's in the next room?

I did this movie, Predestination, and it's one of my favorite movies I've ever made, because sci-fi really lets you talk about ideas in a way that's not pretentious.

One of the things that's really lousy about making movies is that you have such little interaction with your audience.