My films really have to be a part of a whole body of work that says something to me.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

These times are unfriendly toward Worlds alternative to this one

There's a film I did years ago, 'Love Serenade, ' that I still really love. It's such an oddball sense of humor. It was a really special film for me when I did it.

I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.

The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.

It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.

Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them.

I was not a great ballhandler. I just worked very hard at it, and I got to be a good ballhandler-a competent ballhandler-but never a great ballhandler.

If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry.

Two of the biggest drivers of airline profit are change fees and baggage fees.

Quantum physics shows us the universe as a dynamic web of connection.