Attention should be paid to this question of our soul, and not simply to accounting procedures. Attention should be paid to the interest of those who are yet unborn, who should be able to see this generation as it saw itself, and the past generation as it saw itself.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

When people talk to me about the digital divide, I think of it not so much about who has access to what technology as about who knows how to create and express themselves in the new language of the screen. If students aren't taught the language of sound and images, shouldn't they be considered as illiterate as if they left college without being able to read and write?

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.

You really have to focus on what you're doing and just plow ahead no matter what hurdles are thrown in front of you.

I've had much more down in my life than I've had up. And much more struggle. First of all, when I went into the film school everybody said, "What are you doing? This is a complete dead-end for a career."