An ecosystem that has the maximum amount of diversity is the richest.

I find the training of the mind that Zen puts people through is by far to me, the most interesting, one of the most interesting disciplines.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

I make non-fiction partly because I'm not that good of a writer. My talent, if I have any, is in balancing, capturing and directing reality, rather than creating scenarios.

I really do think you shoot for that beautiful experience of showing your movie in a crowd or room full of people, or even just one person who happens to go to a matinee screening.

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.