Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.

We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.

Death smells like homemade applesauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling scent of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them they are us.

I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

God desires for the whole world to see Him, so that he can conquer the world and make it His footstool

Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.

I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

[Bob] Dylan, like Johnny Cash and only a handful of others, simultaneously embodies the American dream and the harsh wake-up call that comes after it.

It's called peaceful coexistence, Santangelo. You should try it and if it works we may sell the idea to the Israelis and Palestinians

I actually just rock-climbed when I was away on vacation and now I'm searching out rock climbing gyms. That's my new obsession for 2013.

To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.