I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement.

I'm sorry to myself, for treating me worse than I would anybody else.

A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through, a great peace greets you there

Once I know who I'm not, then I'll know who I am.

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.

You don't rest well as long as you're seeking vengeance. I feel sad justice wasn't done, but it's time to move on and sleep well.

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

If it was up to the studio, everything would be shot with a camcorder.

That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience.

Hate is a disease, and in 1930 I became sick with hatred.

Broken Horse is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and squeezes.

I'm hopeful that we'll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it.

We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.

Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.

The quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water.