“I think I've learned more about that over the years. You can't solve everything, and God is the one who is ultimately in control of the world.”

“You can't control everything. You can't control how someone feels about you. Or what makes them tick. You can only control how you react, how you act, how you think and feel.”

“I've seen no evidence of a god, so I'm not going to think about one.
Being raised nonreligious made you free. You could look at the evidence. Whether being nonreligious or a Democrat was more important, I can't tell you.”

“If I've learned anything in my life, it's that God has the habit of asking you to do the very thing you think you can't do.”

“I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.”

“I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.”

“I can't stand just sitting here not doing anything. You can't solve a problem by remote control.”

“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.”

“And so I look back on not just the last ten years but everything that I've done as being sort of an ongoing growing continual film school. I mean I don't think I've got to a point where I've achieved anything that feels like, a particular milestone, but there's still a lot more to learn and hopefully a lot more films to make.”

“I've explored a variety of directions and themes over the years. But I think in my painting you can see the signature of one artist, the work of one wrist.”