I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

Basically, you make another movie, and another, and hopefully you feel good about every picture you make. And you say, 'My name is on that. I did that. It's OK.' But don't get me wrong, I still get excited by it all. That, I hope, will never disappear.

You can be born-again and believe in Jesus, believe in Jesus' ideas and try to live them out, without becoming totally intolerant of other people.

My films really have to be a part of a whole body of work that says something to me.

I wouldn't presume to be God's point of view.

The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.