Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary.

All religions are beautiful in the story, as you say. It's when they're put into practice that they grow ugly.

I don't know what she's thinking, but I'm thinking how fluid the border is between crazy and interesting, and how hard it is to decide who belongs where.

I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.

Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.

Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.

The human element of making music is what's most important.

Your two guardian angels are always with you. The other angels come and go as we need them.

If you continue to think the way you have always thought, you'll continue to get what you've always got. Is it enough?

There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.