I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

Along the way, a lot of filmmakers get rid of things that are messy or don't fit in some ways. To me, I want to work with serendipity and things we happened upon. That's our job, that's what the form demands.

To succeed in the game of power, you have to master your emotions. But even if you succeed in gaining such self-control, you can never control the temperamental dispositions of those around you. And this presents a great danger.

I'm afraid I'm just too intense to have soft ideas, you know, about what to read when you're trying to pass the time.

I like lecturing and going around the world and giving talks and I like doing consulting and helping people.

I was working on other things and I wanted to make a film, and I had some ideas brewing in my head. Brandy's [ Burre] circumstance was such that I didn't really know what was going to happen. That was obviously a surprise, but I knew she was in her mid-to-late thirties and she was starting to really think about her life in a way that really appealed to me, appealed to the women that I know in my life.

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.