I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

We crash into each other just so we can feel something.

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

You have to be careful of the advice you take.

You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half dozen, that would be a big day.

If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.

That’s the hope, isn’t it? To see your family in your time of dying.

It's always been my belief that the victory of Islam will never take place until a Muslim state is established.. in the heart of the Islamic world.

Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit.

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.

So when the devil wants to dance with you, you better say never, Because the dance with the devil might last you forever.

Conservatives are giving up on democracy because it's not efficient. They want an autocratic regime.

The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism.

In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

They smell good. They look pretty. I love women. I do.