I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth.

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

Do or do not. There is no try. Only do.

Once you get a character, you lock it in your heart - it's there.

First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person.

In a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow - in a movie, they don't come out for a bow, they're dead.

Impossible to see, the future is.

I've done TV for tons and tons of years, so I'm not crazy about doing more TV, but with films, all I want to do are different projects that aren't all the same.

I just want to do good work. That's all I want to do. I don't have big aspirations like being the President of the United States, I just want to do good work. That's all.

Our job as directors is to entertain an audience, it's not just to do it for the director. You might as well sit in a white room and look at the movie for the rest of your life - it's ridiculous.

I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.

An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.

Reliance on other people's knowledge. . . . buys us all a lot of time. It also buys us, in essence, many billions of prosthetic brains.

When it comes to emotions, women know how to paint with the full set of oils, while men are busy doodling with crayons.

I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.

Am I missing an eyebrow?

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

Some say that I'm their favorite, but I aint hearing none of that. I'm about my team, hoe, Young Money running back

By walking a long time in an environment, landscapes begin to influence on your mood, as( landscapes) change, your feelings do.

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!

I have never thought of winning an Oscar. Rather, I never thought I would get the Padma Shri. I think God has been kind to me. I think getting Oscar award is not too far away.