Death Is What Makes Life An Event.

I Think It's Better To Be Overly Ambitious And Fail Than To Be Underambitious And Succeed In A Mundane Way. I Have Been Very Fortunate. I Failed Upward In My Life!

Of All The Human Evils, Of Which We Have Thousands Of Years Of Record And Our Own Contemporary Experiences, The Most Horrible Evil Of All Is Hypocrisy. It's This Idea That There Are Those Who Do Bad And There Are Those Who Do Good, When, In Fact, Even The People Who Supposedly Do Good Are Saying They Do Good To Mask The Fact That They Do Evil.

One Thing That I'm Sure Of Is The Real Pleasure Of Life - It's Not Being Known, It's Not Having Your Own Jet Plane, It's Not Having A Mansion The Pleasure Is To Learn Something

When You Make A Film It Is Like Asking Yourself A Question. When It Is Finished, You Know The Answer. Ultimately With All Of Cinema, We Are Just Trying To Learn About Ourselves. I Have Always Used The Opportunity To Make A Film To Learn More About Myself, Which I Am Still Doing.

I Wanted To Write And Direct Movies And Not Be Forced To Adapt Them From A Bestselling Book.