Liberia is not at the center of a massive geopolitical game. Afghanistan is and has always been. The history is dramatic, the politics are dramatic, the landscape is incredibly dramatic.

Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.

I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm exploring.

It's funny, the old media idea is very segmented, like "this is my territory and this is yours." But media is changing. You're at a point now where people can start to move into different forms.

The best way to get Americans to focus on what's happening in Afghanistan is by using the example of their own.

The military has a very prickly relationship with the press.

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

I gotta quit smoking, doctor's orders, and the drinking, court orders.

When I make a movie, it's almost a relief to get shooting 'cause the hell is over, or part of the hell is over.

He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise.

The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.

Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

Please do not lose the ability to dream

Music causes us to think eloquently.

I think it's great to change - change country, change anything.