What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience.
There's something about living in the country that I think makes you inventive, because nature is full of miracles and wonder and surprises, and if you don't have much money, you have to make things if you want things.
Every few years when it's been another five years that have passed and I haven't made a film and the depression starts taking over totally, I allow myself to do a commercial. And then I feel really dirty and get to work promptly.
The forces that run the world always try to keep things under control. The population might be having a wonderful time, buying iPods and going to nice restaurants, but I still feel they're all kind of under control.
It's hard for me to worry about the studios losing money. I'm not very sympathetic to their money problems, because they certainly haven't been sympathetic to mine.
I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.
I can't improve on how the Bible expresses itself, so I don't even try.
One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.
If you want to create, you'll create.
A fighter with heart will almost always win out against a fighter with skill but no will.