Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films.

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.

We are blood-secured, delivered from the enemy’s power, and raised up into newness of life in God.

I need to go outside. I wouldn't say I'm an outdoors person, but I like to go outside.

Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.

A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

Trying your best is bringing your best... that's the way to do it! Desire and passion is everything.

The way you see life will largely determine what you get out of it.