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I'm sentimental to a fault.
I love the Spanish language.
I'm happy to keep making Disney movies.
I'm a deeply romantic person, nostalgic to a fault.
I like roller coasters that have the one 70-foot drop.
One of my biggest regrets is that I didn't finish college.
I love communicating non-verbally. I find great value in it.
I often conflate the domestic and the cosmic on a daily basis.
I love horror films. I love ghost movies and haunted-house movies.
You always want your movies to reach the widest audience possible.
I love animals and their behavior. I watch cat videos all the time.
I love film criticism as an art. I think it's a very important thing.
I'm an atheist. I don't believe in the afterlife, but I do believe in ghosts.
I can't watch my movies at their premieres - I learned that lesson the hard way.
I take a great deal of value in things that are done by hand or executed by hand.
I find myself very attached to the places I live, and moving is never easy for me.
I love films that are more random and chaotic, finding moments and capturing them.
I never rejected religion, but it just ceased to be an overriding concern in my life.
I don't like being pessimistic. I don't like living my life with a nihilistic mindset.
I'm not searching for the meaning of life, but I'm looking for a meaning within my life.
I'm always making movies for my audiences, but I'm not trying to meet their expectations.
I love movies. I can't participate in my love of movie-making fully unless I'm producing it.
When I'm writing a story, I try to reduce it to the barest possible components and go from there.
I find everything in life a little bit sad, but I also find a great deal of hope everywhere I look.
I never put a premium on making a living. It was never one of those things that was important to me.
Time goes by so slowly when you're a child, and then, as an adult, it goes by in the blink of an eye.
I make movies to be watched the way I want to watch them, and I want to watch them in movie theatres.
I guess you can't really turn a camera on outside in Texas without getting Terrence Malick comparisons.
I think there is a value in leaving the world a little better off, and movies can do that in a minor way.
The films I love are very precise, and every shot means something; every shot should convey something new.
'Ain't Them Bodies Saints' wound up becoming a love story even though it was not initially meant to be one.
I have a repository of titles I like in my head, and I am always looking for a movie that I can put one on.
I learned to not separate writing, shooting, and editing, it's all sort of one big mess of creative output.
In my darkest moments, I have not eaten an entire pie, but I have turned to other baked goods to find solace.
Grief reveals itself in the most mundane activities, like eating. It's never when you're looking at old pictures.
In the past, I'd been sort of a fan of writing a coat hanger of a script, and something I could hang ideas off of.
Some filmmakers are great at making complex things and films with a lot of moving parts, and I'm just not that way.
I have a very short attention span, which is funny. I mean, you'd watch me and think that I don't, but I actually do.
There are some stories - not even stories, some feelings - that you can't accomplish in cinema without using celluloid.
Digital is my safety net. I know how to use it, how to operate those cameras; it makes sense to me. Film is much more mysterious.
I love what Paul Thomas Anderson did with 'The Master' with putting out those teasers made up of footage that's not in the movie.
I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the things that I direct.
I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree of gravity.
It's tough for me to move on from places, even though I realize that it's not only necessary but very important to be able to do so.
If I can't finish a screenplay, if I can't get to the last page as a writer, it probably means it's not a good movie for me to make.
Casey Affleck is someone I want to work with again. We almost had him on 'Pete's Dragon,' but his scheduling issues didn't work out.
I'm someone who is very sentimental and nostalgic and attached to the homes I lived in, and I think moving is a traumatic experience.
I don't think I'm the best screenwriter in the world. It's just important to me to write my movies so I'm personally invested in them.
Dramas are incredibly compelling. I feel like 'Silver Linings Playbook' is a drama, but because it's funny, people market it as a comedy.
The first movie I ever saw in the cinema was Walt Disney's 'Pinocchio,' upon its 1984 re-release, which would have put me at three years old.