I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.

And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my fingers upon thee!

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.

Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

Hamburgers! The corner-stone of any nutritious breakfast.

If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.

In an English village, you turn over a stone and have no idea what will crawl out.Miss Marple

Paris ain't much of a town.

No one in Washington realizes you can't borrow money endlessly.

Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.

I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of Private Eye and a latte.

I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy.

One has to know more about a company if one buys earnings.

Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.

I'm a little Jewish girl from Long Island, but when I listened to Tina Turner, I pictured myself in a mini-dress, dancing like Tina Turner. It's inevitable.