The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.

There's nothing creative about living within your means.

The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art.

I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.

You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.

Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.

Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.