I'd love to direct commercials on Caribbean beacheswith luscious women rubbing on suntan lotion, but all I get arethese documentary-type things.

Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.

So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.

I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.

I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.

Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.

Urgency and despair don't get along well.

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

Of course not,” said Hermione. “Everything we need is here on this paper.

The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23!

I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads.

Changing the world takes more than everything any one person knows, but not more than we know together.

My advice is to go for the messes - that's where the action is.

We do not understand and then obey: that is instruction. We obey by faith, and then we understand: that is illumination.