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

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.

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.

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.

Stop blaming others for the pains and sufferings you have. They are because of you, your karma, and your own disposition.

All models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind.

Art should become as one with its surroundings.

I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.

I have never known my husband to approve any act of mine which I myself valued.

A lot of my past is gone from my mind.

If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.

No matter how hard you try it is impossible to be grateful and depressed.