I'm not going to be an interpreter at the U.N. I'm not going to live in Africa on a farm or whatever, but I am going to see the world through those eyes when I make those films.

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.

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

These words are not just destined to be shared with the mind - but, the Soul.

Good but not religious-good.

We have to be successful at the cutting-edge industries of the future like Twitter. But we also have always been a country that makes stuff.

there is no politically neutral art.

I've actually always been into suits. But I never really wore them, I guess because I was too young and it didn't feel right.

Mix an anorexic body with a heart made of pure fire and you are going to go with a savagery that's hard to explain.

Marco Rubio is really to the right of Chris Christie, when Jeb Bush and John Kasich and he hasn't been able to pull away from them.

The men may be the head of the house, but the women are the neck and they can turn the head any way they want.

Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer.