In fact, we've entered a world which is arguably much more dangerous than [being] eyeball to eyeball with the USSR.

Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.

I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want.

Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.

I'm not really interested in the exploding car or endless sort of dystopian fantasies and superheroes. None of that... that doesn't interest me very much.

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.

Lonely trees are not lonely

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

I used the Deep Cleansing Masque on my wedding day because I wanted everything - including my complexion - to be perfect!

There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war.

Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.

Never underestimate the power of the mind, the importance of love and faith, and never stop dreaming.

Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism.

I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'