If Wes Anderson has a very strong cast, he can direct the minutia of that story and still manage to have something that lives and breathes.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

Children reinvent your world for you.

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.

I believe in using words, not fists.

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.

If somebody had started on a remake of French Kiss before I announced my own film, I would have dropped my subject. If someone else starts after me, what am I to do?

Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.

The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce.

It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief, or with no proper examination of the grounds on which the creed is supposed to rest.

Gold is no longer an investment. Gold is no longer a portfolio item. Gold is certainly not a trading vehicle. Gold is your lifeline and I mean that literally.

I worship F. Scott Fitzgerald and I love his writing.

People know I love to shoot action and that I'm not afraid of emotion.