Film is a collective experience, as you know.

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films.

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

Today’s happiness depends on yesterday’s choice, just as today’s choice will determine tomorrow’s happiness.

If we all work together there is no telling how we can change the world through the impact of promoting positivity online.

The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.

I loved laughing with him, loved that he could make me laugh.

I'm sick of my own romanticism!

We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers.

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

It's very hard to predict what kind of uses we'd make of assistants that could read and understand all the information the human race has ever generated. It could be really transformational.

It's just like high school. If you're a freshman or a sophomore, it's hard to tell the seniors who've been through two, three, playoff games what to do.

The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.