My mother let me know that we're all connected. If some of us become more affluent it's not because we're better or even smarter people - we have a responsibility to ourselves to be a good boy.

I'd say to anyone trying to break into the business: Don't just be interested in movies. Be interested in life. Be a person. Be in touch.

We, as film-makers, are privileged. We can make people cry or laugh. We can make them think and feel. It is a great privilege and a great responsibility.

There is a very particular feeling I get when I have the camera in my hand, looking at an actor talk, knowing that what I’m shooting will end up on the screen.

I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that happens when you look through the camera. You're looking for the shot.

Most people, I believe, when they're asked profound questions about their own persona are not really able to enunciate it, because it's a combination of so many things.

I am part of a system which encourages people to buy things and do things which are not to their best interest.

I felt that that experience, because of the responsible nature that I found I acted all during that traumatic time, that I felt that I was a man.

Not one Wall Street executive has been charged with crimes since the 2008 financial crash.

From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.

If you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary, I think that you are part of a system.

I never said becoming the slayer would be a field trip to a Justin Bieber concert.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love like being enlivened with champagne.

Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend.

Two can live as cheaply as one - if they both have good jobs.

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

Anyone can get a degree or a certificate in something. Big deal. A piece of paper from a university somewhere doesn't define a person. It won't tell you who I am.

I don't remember spending any time with anybody on set. I don't spend a lot of time with people.

Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.