Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.

I think everything is pretty well preordained - even your mistakes.

What did one shepherd say to the other shepherd? Let’s get the flock out of here.

Creating life simply to destroy it is wrong.

I get pretty dark sometimes, pretty bleak. But that passes.

I like directing much better. It's more fun, that's all there is to it. It's essentially the same job, which is storytelling, but you have more control over the way you want to tell the story. It's a high. I love it.

I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.