I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.

Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.

My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I've got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.