Stairs elevate you; ethics elevates you; goodness elevates you; awareness elevates you; wisdom elevates you.
Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.
Always, with any movie that I do, I have a book of ideas that I've heard, or seen, or whatever, and I always try to incorporate it in the film.
I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.
Somebody said that I'm a bit like a sponge, grabbing things here and there, soaking stuff up. [As a director] you have to be, really.
If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.
The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.
He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.
At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material wealth acquired, or power and prestige, but rather on the basis of what you have become as persons and what you are in conduct and character.
Averages. . . seduce us away from minute observation.
A heart's a heavy burden.