Have a strong vision about the story you want to tell and how you want to tell it.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

God, I just love baseball.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

Taking care of yourself doesn't mean me first, it means me too.

I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it's rewarding, ultimately.

My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his appealing look upcast to the white throne of God.

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.

All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To be here means you have a right to be here.

Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.

Just never give up. Try to believe in yourself and don't let negativity wear you down.

The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.