I'm trying not to let the anger and the violence that erupt take over my life. I guess it comes with the growing process, I don't know. A little mellowing.

There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.

Always stay open to surprise.

I'm trying not to let the anger and the violence that erupt take over my life. I guess it comes with the growing process, I don't know. A little mellowing.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting