Every Bond is different and every generation needs a different Bond and it's been able to move with the times.

Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.

When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

Confidence is essential, but ego is not.

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

You think about taking audiences on a journey.

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

Husbands are the leftovers of a stew called love –she thought—, and with hair on their faces.

Ignorance must be a fun place to live

There are some laws that are coded into the very nature of the universe, and one is: There Is Never Enough Shelf Space.

Dignity is to have a dream, a strong one, which gives you a vision, a world where you have a place, where whatever it is you have to contribute makes a difference.

Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

I intentionally built a business that has absolutely nothing to do with appearance.

When Jesus got to the point when most people today are thinking of retirement, he goes - 'time to save the world!'

I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.

Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.