One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
I have grown up loving Shakespeare.
Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.
When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.
I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.
I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'
Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
