A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

We are the breakers of our own hearts

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

Step forward out of your own lingering residual sense of smallness, take up every inch of life that is your blessed inheritance, and DO YOUR THING.

Appreciate water before you are thirsty! Appreciate all the good things before you need them!

The American political system is not good at trading sacrifice now to prevent crises later.

The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

I definitely find the technical aspects of post-production generally quite overwhelming.

Passion is momentary; love is enduring.

I have come up the hard way.

Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun.

People can progress only by working and producing more.