If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way.

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

I kind of know youre only as good as your last result.

The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay all over the world.

Time and circumstances change us...and it is pointless to ask why.

So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems.

Everything knows what is best for itself. That is what the Sanskrit word dharma means. Dharma means the best of all possible actions.

As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.

Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.

People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made...