Electronics is clearly the winner of the day.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.

I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism.

When in doubt, make a western.

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.

Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.

Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed.

He had a dashing smile. It nearly dashed right off his face.

How can I expect to get anything done around here with you touching me like that?

Probably nothing that we have ever managed to do quite equals the basic undermining of the physical stability of the planet on which most of the world's poor people depend.

I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

Sometimes when you are the closest to your breakthrough the pressure is the greatest. You have come too far to give up now!

Just had lunch with the president who seems pensive, slightly deflated, realistic, aggravated and resolute. Didn't eat his pie.

When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.

My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois.

Life is a test and this world a place of trial.