If Plato is a fine red wine, then Aristotle is a dry martini.

I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.

Let's not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We'll be their butlers soon enough.

Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

I don't want to see the zipper in the back of the monster suit. Like everybody else who goes to the movies, I want to believe the monster is real.

I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.

I'm not sure who's right, who's wrong, but it doesn't matter. Sometimes you just have to do what you're told. That's who we are!

I consider myself a very lucky man indeed.

I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States.

I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it.

Whatever you frequently introduce to your subconscious mind is what it will continuously feed your feelings and emotions with.

It's really all about family, love and the children for me. I work at that every day.

My gift to you will be to take away your freedom of choice for a while. Freedom can be very unhealthy and unproductive. Instead, you'll have freedom from choice.

Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country.

Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush.

Love is being accepting of all of their flaws.

I've won at every level.

We are all equal, rich and poor and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.

The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.

So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.