I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.

And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.

Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.

Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had.

If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.

Peace may be hard to achieve, but is possible with small yet essential steps that are guided by courage and sufficient commitment.

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.

I don't want to be my own boss. I want to be my own colleague.

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

Olivia: You didn't even know I was there! Harry: Excuse me, yes I did.

If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.

I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, Im afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun.

If there are not too many value stocks that I can find, the market isn't all that cheap.