Essentially, filmmakers have to be free and not directed by power or politicians.

More and more, money is becoming a religion.

We don't live in Disneyland. We live in blood and in time, not in Fantasyland. We live in a tragic world.

Aggressive capitalism leads the world, and we can see the results, especially in Europe: more poverty for the vast majority, and more riches for a few.

Technology is an extension of our hands and our feet, not our spirit.

I initially studied literature [in France], and then I went to cinema school. I discovered the Cinematheque, and saw not only action movies and westerns, but also lots of serious movies.

We saw what happens with Bolsheviks. It was another catastrophe. I don't have the solution. The moviemaker can ask questions but not give solutions.

Many years ago making movies was something. It was the major entertainment just to go to the cinema, once, twice a week. At the time, something like 400 million people went to the movies.

How do I get inspired? Life.

Look for her not in the valleys below, nor in the temple rooms. For she has gone, gone into the high passes, far beyond this dying moon.

I really work for racial reconciliation in many ways. And you can judge me by my writings.

I am not against Muslim schools. But as I believe in integration, I think we would be better off overall if we did not have denominational schools at all.

I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness.

Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back!

Big business always serve - directly or indirectly - the masses.

But I am weirdly healthy, so I don’t beat myself up about it—it wouldn’t help, and I don’t want to pass that on to my girls.

Information can perhaps be useful as a support-stick and help you cross the way... but if you want to find your way in the darkness, only knowledge can forge that path for you... only knowledge.

Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to men whose inner life is faint, for the inner life is full of nameless doubts.