I want the world to be better because I was here.

Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.

I think that when I make a film, I'm terrified that people will come to work and work on something that they're not proud of.

There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.

Remember, don't try to build the greatest wall that's ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day.

The value of a story isn't that it just has a narcotic effect. It's that it awakens something in you that makes you want to think, that makes you talk to other people, that stirs something that makes you examine the story that eventually turns into self-examination.

There are so many people who have lived and died before you. You will never have a new problem; you're not going to ever have a new problem. Somebody wrote the answer down in a book somewhere.