I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

Find someone you care enough about to help you control your drinking. Preferably yourself.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

We need the best education system in the United States. The best system, not the most expensive.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest fraud.

These things shall be! A loftier race Than e'er the world hath known shall rise, With flame of freedom in their souls, And light of knowledge in their eyes.

It seems to me nowadays that the most important task for someone who is aging is to spread love and warmth whenever possible.

if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition

The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.

A small nation can fight a superpower with determination and dedication.