I'd rather have half of my idea change the world than my whole idea be a few papers in a journal.
I quit, and then I started again, and then I quit, and then I started again.
A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss. . . That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.
So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done. I'm interested in finding people who I think have a voice - and a very specific voice.
I don't want to waste time being angry at someone I love.
You dont know someone until you know what they want.
What's valuable to me has become clearer as I've got older. To me, it's about the value of your time and your day and the value of the people you spend it with.
Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few hardened prisoners are more or less surreptitiously continuing their real vocations.
My dear friend Aaron Paul, I love you so much.
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.
I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.