Nobody is born without fear. We are all born into this world screaming and crying, a bloody mess. We're afraid of failing. What differentiates people is that some of them tend to deal more with fearful situations and understand that it's hurting them in life. That by becoming fearful they're maiming themselves and they learn to move past these fears.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

Become who you are by learning who you are.

I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because that's what I'm good at. I'm good at observing people's behavior and putting these unspoken things into movie contexts in ways that other people can sometimes miss.

If you have millions and millions of dollars, you're living in a totally different world. You don't feel it anymore and you've got to feel it.

There was writing and foreign languages. I always had an ease with foreign languages. So the both are related, both language related kind of mind.

You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances.