I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.

Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.

The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.

If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.

If you were standing next to the prophet on the mountain, would you have seen the archangel? And my answer to that was probably not, even though it's supposed to be a really big archangel. He describes it as - the Archangel Gabriel as standing on the horizon and filling the sky. That's a big angel.