The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work, and the difference between safe and bold can only be defined by yourself since no one else knows for what you are hoping when you embark on anything.

Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.

There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

That seems to me the greatest American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.