"The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them."

"It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable."

"I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either."

"And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it's a slippery slope. I always say to myself I'm never going to give anything away because there's never any point or benefit for me."

"There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down."

"Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage."

"Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?"

"Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear."