I am part of a system which encourages people to buy things and do things which are not to their best interest.

I'd say to anyone trying to break into the business: Don't just be interested in movies. Be interested in life. Be a person. Be in touch.

We, as film-makers, are privileged. We can make people cry or laugh. We can make them think and feel. It is a great privilege and a great responsibility.

There is a very particular feeling I get when I have the camera in my hand, looking at an actor talk, knowing that what I’m shooting will end up on the screen.

I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that happens when you look through the camera. You're looking for the shot.

Most people, I believe, when they're asked profound questions about their own persona are not really able to enunciate it, because it's a combination of so many things.

I felt that that experience, because of the responsible nature that I found I acted all during that traumatic time, that I felt that I was a man.

My mother let me know that we're all connected. If some of us become more affluent it's not because we're better or even smarter people - we have a responsibility to ourselves to be a good boy.

Not one Wall Street executive has been charged with crimes since the 2008 financial crash.

From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.

If you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary, I think that you are part of a system.

You have to understand and appreciate the value in people before you can notice those in need and be of help.

Memories? Pheh. Those just get in the way of living.

Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

The entire universe will eventually disintegrate but by then I hope to be in a safer place.

By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.

But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!

Every thought and every word you speak is an affirmation. So why not choose to use only positive affirmations to create an exceptional life? I know you can do it!

It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander-in-chief.

Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.