I believe that pain can be a rite of passage into learning. I believe that the worse thing that can happen is the sin of banality and comfort. Those things are in my movies, but also my movies are quite the fruit of somebody who defines himself as an agnostic.

...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue

for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.

My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.

I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen

Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.