If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that with a novel; you have to do your version of the words as written.

Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.

When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

Confidence is essential, but ego is not.

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

You think about taking audiences on a journey.

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

Today Relative to Yesterday or Tomorrow The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

For when a people is not willing or able to fight for its existence- Providence in its eternal justice has decreed that people's end.

My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.

Four hundred years is but a moment in 10,000 years. Time is curved, time is braided. Throw out your clocks.

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.

The European economy is collapsing! The trans-Atlantic region is a disaster area in terms of economy.