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It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

I think that our task as filmmakers is to create the most insightful reality given the most pressing questions.

A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world of the film. You're watching something unfold before you. I prefer the idea of wonder or intense wonder over shock or something.

The greatest filmmakers are not the ones who put everything in; they're the ones who can figure things to leave out, and in doing so, invite your participation.

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.

As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.

And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.

I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.