"I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances."

"The fear factor actually brings the genuineness."

"I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about."

"Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that."

"Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!"

"I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring."

"There were definitely bands and musicians I liked that drove my mother insane. I probably liked them all the more for it! Bjork drove my mom nuts. What I listened to was actually pretty mom-friendly for the most part. I wasn't very rebellious."

"Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false."