“My life is proof that I don’t need you to do what I do. If there’s no one to see it, I’ll watch it.”

I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.

As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.

In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.

I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.

I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.

The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.

I don’t want to live anywhere where I’m breathing two million cars’ fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.

I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.

I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.

I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.

I’m living in a real postmodern time – every single thing sings to you to tell you it’s started, it’s stopped, you’ve got a message, you didn’t get a message.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.

Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

No one is so poor that they cannot give, and no one is so rich that they cannot receive.

This is my sixth year now.

Sometimes my husband will surprise me with flowers for no reason.

The power lies in who can say no the most. But, real power, though, lies in the opportunity to say yes.

You see, there is no fruit without life. You cannot manufacture patience. The fruit of the Spirit is patience.

You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice.