British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond."

The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.

I love the bullshit morning shows. They're so stupid but I love them.

Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war.

We're a leader sure, but still a member of the global community. And that's true and important and when America acts like its worst self on the global stage is when we forget that.

Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American story.

Nationality was - and is - far less a divide than age... because "everything is global, man!"

For one more time, he decided to give away smoking.And then, she happened one more time in his head.

Love is serious and tolerant. Magnificent and noble.

Sharing what you have is more important than what you have.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

A lot of people tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.

The Queen of England gave me the honor of the Order of the British Empire for working with children.

When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also.

The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.