Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.
My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.
Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.
If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.
Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.
Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste.
Our assignment has never been about what we can do for God, but what can God do through us.
I don't like to talk about messages so much with films simply because it's a little more didactic. The reason I'm a filmmaker is to tell stories and so you hope that they will have resonance for people and for the kind of things you're talking about.
We have everywhere an absence of memory. Architects sometimes talk of building with context and continuity in mind, religious leaders call it tradition, social workers say it's a sense of community, but it is memory we have banished from our cities. We have speed and power, but no place. Travel, but no destination. Convenience, but no ease.
Do not save your loving speeches For your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, Speak them rather now instead.