To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.
My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
If you're striving for strong emotion and strong sentiment, and you're authentic with it and honest with it, then you're on the right side of the line. But if you step into sentimentality, there is a false move or a false tone to it.
It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.
Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.
Almost any age is better than twenty-two.
I have observed gratitude to be a principle, that bears the smallest share in the hearts of those where it ought to be most strongly resident, so that I begin to imagine one half of the world don't understand the real etymology of the word.
It's one of the greatest comforts of working in ministry: the unspoken certitude that your spouse did not marry you for your money.
A scientist naturally and inevitably. . . mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess by new data-predicting the consequences of the guess and then dispassionately inquiring whether or not the predictions are verified.