I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that happens when you look through the camera. You're looking for the shot.

I'd say to anyone trying to break into the business: Don't just be interested in movies. Be interested in life. Be a person. Be in touch.

We, as film-makers, are privileged. We can make people cry or laugh. We can make them think and feel. It is a great privilege and a great responsibility.

There is a very particular feeling I get when I have the camera in my hand, looking at an actor talk, knowing that what I’m shooting will end up on the screen.

Most people, I believe, when they're asked profound questions about their own persona are not really able to enunciate it, because it's a combination of so many things.

I am part of a system which encourages people to buy things and do things which are not to their best interest.

I felt that that experience, because of the responsible nature that I found I acted all during that traumatic time, that I felt that I was a man.

My mother let me know that we're all connected. If some of us become more affluent it's not because we're better or even smarter people - we have a responsibility to ourselves to be a good boy.

Not one Wall Street executive has been charged with crimes since the 2008 financial crash.

From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.

If you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary, I think that you are part of a system.

War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.

Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist.

The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth.

I got a heart tattooed on my foot. It's my first tattoo.

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

I do not sleep; I wish to meet my death awake.

As obvious as it sounds, I strongly recommend shopping at a specialty bike store. They are the experts, and they will be able to help you decide which bike is best for you.

I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.