You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing.

I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.

If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.

Everything has changed, but the process of telling a story has not changed. It's like cavemen sitting around the fire; somebody's going to tell the story. Somebody is drawing on the wall. You're communicating. You're trying to learn and teach at the same time. You're your own student and you're your own teacher, but the process is of the communicating.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem