Everybody thought New York was this hard, cruel place, and I found it to be an extraordinarily wonderful place filled with the most interesting people.

Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea.

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.

Beauty doesn't have anything to do with prettiness. Beauty has to do with something else; it gets into an area where words can't go.

Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It's not about how effective you are it's about how you are effective.

My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.

Sometimes other people have better ideas.

It's interesting that there are places that words can't get to.

My education was an education by movies.

I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day.

Follow pleasure and then will pleasure flee Flee pleasure and pleasure will follow thee.

Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.

Fashion is not always about what's new, it's also about what's good. And I think if you need to see what's good, you have to be there.

I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.

When we are no longer capable of love, we are no longer alive.

Dividing into teams doesn't necessarily mean denigrating others. Studies of groupishness have generally found that groups increase in-group love far more than they increase out-group hostility.

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.

Riches bring anxiety; wisdom gives peace of mind.