"I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama."

“It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.”

“Someone said to me, early on in film school... if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything, because that is the most difficult and most interesting thing to photograph.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“So eager for eternal damnation.”

“Bodily and spiritual affliction are the surest sign of Divine predilection. Gratitude for suffering is a precious jewel for our heavenly crown... Man should always firmly believe that God sends just that trial which is most beneficial for him.”

“A lot of times you talk about what you know, but since our reality is so difficult, its hard to think about travelling beyond the stars to another dimension - fantasy worlds - when, in reality, you can't get a job on Earth.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

“I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is hard for me to do. It takes a long, long time to make it poetic, somewhat essayistic.”

“Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.”

Source : Chaim Potok (2010). “The Gift of Asher Lev”, p.170, Ballantine Books

“Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.”

Source : George Jean Nathan (1960). “The magic mirror: selected writings on the theatre”