Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

Such beautiful strength lives in uncompromising humility.

Leaders motivate people to understand that they can do better than they’ve already done and go farther than they’ve reached.

Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.

I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.

Don't sell out your virtue and your value for something you think you want. Judas got the money, but he threw it all away and hung himself because he was so unhappy with himself.

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

Whatever it is, you have to show up for the job, and power through.

Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them.

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.