I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it.

Every puff was like sucking in the abyss, yet he inhaled until his lungs filled with toxic smoke that clouded his thoughts of her.

You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts.

Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.

There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.

All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are....Ten seconds of silence.

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

You get better at working by working. And if you don't work, you're not getting better.

Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics