I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it.

When you start being enthusiastic about whatever it is you like, that is the golden age for you.

There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.

When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.

I'm a fan of music from all over the world.

A lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist.

We always had the idea that there might be two slightly different versions of the same thing.

I still enjoy watching films more than making them.

You can almost take the book and use it as a script.

I must admit, that I have learned more from my negative experiences than I have ever learned from my positive one.

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

There will never be a nuclear war; there's too much real estate involved.

Fear of change perplexes monarchs.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

We saw when those World Trade towers came down what these terrorists will do.

If enough people out there want a physical product, I'll be happy to make one. I'd say about 10,000 people is "enough."

There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.

You don't need to worry about Donald Trump and nuclear weapons. You need to worry about Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. They have authorized nuclear weapons for Iran.

The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.