I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.

I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it.

It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

Music stops you from thinking.

I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder.

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

The fact is, the heart and mind aren't always friendly. And in my case, they're barely speaking.

Do we look like thrill-seekers? Wasn't it enough that we had to put up that sign reading NO HABLA ESPANOL and acknowledge the existence of thirty percent of the population, even in the negative?

I want to win at everything. I usually don't like things that I'm not good at, but it doesn't mean I don't want to win at them.

It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

The last Martian report station on Earth was established in the Pyrenees.

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

Democrats don't have reasons for people to vote for them. They're just trying to gin up anger and resentment for their opposition. And it's just not working anymore.

The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.

A turn or two I'll walk To still my beating mind.