Firing employees, that's unfortunately part of doing business.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.

Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

I wish there were somebody I could be comfortable voting for. I might have to vote for Hillary Clinton, even though I have big reservations about her.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.

I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

Time should be reproduced and multiplied

A lot of the commercials that I was doing were very slice-of-life, emotional, documentary-style, not big and cinematic and ultimately like the kind of movie I wanted to make.

In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.

The next movie I do is not going to be in school.

Nihil est sine ratione. There is nothing without a reason.

My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.

Whatever happens, the Lord is in it.

I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.

I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.

I'm not going to read reviews like, "I have to do these things." Any good criticism makes you think about your own films and about cinema in general.