I don't really put trophies out. I don't keep trophies around my apartment.

There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

It's an important part of being a member of society to know what's happening in the world and to know where you fall in it and what you can do about it.

When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again.

I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.

Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.

If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And your movie does that.

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

You only have so much time in life so everything you do needs to mean something to you.

You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality.

The apartments are made for eels.

God's grace is a gift just as life is a gracious breath.

Bigwig: "I can't think why he didn't convince Threarah."Hazel: "Because Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.

The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.

All I know is that you can chop up all the onions and the whatevers you want and put it on top of caviar, but you still can't disguise the fact that you're eating fish eggs. Ugh!

Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.

I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.

I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.

There's nothin like a trail of ßlooÐ to finÐ your way ßack home

They can pump whatever they want into my arm but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's lost the will to live.

I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.