All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

The only event in the history of our species that compares with this one is Genesis. And this is a new kind of Genesis, the Genesis of our species into conscious awareness.

Ty it well, and let it goe.

Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.

Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue.

I think it's more comforting to look in the past because you can understand it better, and there are labels for it often.

You don’t think ahead in years or months: you think about this hour, and maybe the next. Anything else is speculation.

I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.

Sorry is for the things you've done that you shouldn't have not for things you believe in.

The Democrats' version of immigration is all about securing additional votes.