Quotes by Jeff Nichols

Take Shelter is a tough movie because theres no humor in it, so theres really no way to judge how youre doing - whether people are still with you or not.

The films that have influenced me most are: The Hustler, Badlands, Hud, Tender Mercies, Cool Hand Luke, A Perfect World, and Laurence of Arabia. I also really like Fletch. I feel like all of these films reached an honest place in regard to the human condition while also stringing together really entertaining stories.

I think when youre talking about marriage equality and race, people very quickly start to get into their political corners: their ideology comes to the forefront, and they get into this platform argument that theyre used to making, which really doesnt have anything to do with the day-to-day basics of what is being talked about.

We have a problem with dealing with race in our country. We have a problem with dealing with marriage equality and equality in general. These are complex, divisive issues in our society, and I think that the only way we further this conversation is to take them down to a very human scale.

It takes people being alone in front of the computer at three in the morning to write opinions about movies, apparently.

Marriage is tough. I can tell my wife all day long that I love her, but it doesnt mean anything if you dont show that.

The funny thing about Take Shelter is that a lot of people talk about how it was allegory for the economy and things that were to happen. And that was so on the nose in the movie for me. I was like, Thats obvious. Its the other stuff about marriage and commitment and those other things that I spent the most time thinking about.

Marriage isnt about a collection of scenes over ten years of two people telling each other that they love each other. Its about commitment.

I am not going to approve the home-screening format for my film just carte blanche in lieu of a theatrical screening when I cannot trust that it will ever be seen in the format that its intended to be.

If I can drive down the road in my car and listen to XM satellite, and when a song gets beamed into my car, it can tell me who wrote the song and what the damn lyrics are, why, when you broadcast a digital signal of a film, cant it speak to your television to set up a list of settings to show the film in the way that it was meant to be shown?