I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films.

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

When we look in the mirror, the one thing we don't want to see is an ordinary human being.

I've cried over string arrangements.

Whenever we remove a brick from the wall that was designed to separate religion and government, we increase the risk of religious strife and weaken the foundation of our democracy.

I am not an image. I am a human being.

The act of resisting something is the act of granting it life... the more you resist, the more you make it real - whatever it is you are resisting.

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.

The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself.