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I don't think people understand what it takes to make a movie unless they've experienced it themselves or been around it. It's a miracle every time you make a movie, and a bigger miracle if it turns out well.

For a film to be made is a small miracle. And sometimes it's a large one.

Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.

Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything is just perfect, and something magical happens - the film breaks through the screen and does something to you.

When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle.

One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.

I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.

Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.

Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

Every time I hear 'Miracle,' I feel a certain type of way.