One of the really nice things about having the time to do a movie is that you can fine tune it. With TV, you really need A-level people to make a good TV show because it's moving so fast.

Sometimes the world is just out of our control and we like to blames ourselves so that we can make sense out of it.

You have to live a life to become a writer.

A good movie with bad music can kill a great dramatic scene.

The Internal Revenue Service wants a record of how you spend your money, but that is nothing compared to the books God is keeping.

What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.

So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down.

But I'm concerned about security.” My response to that is simple: “Security is for cadavers.

Within a few decades...the United States might get 30% of its electricity from sunshine.

I'm a black man that is proud to be black, and I want to help the black community, but I love all mankind.

Praying is another way of singing.You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.

The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.

If the rest of the world likes Americans only when we're dying, the rest of the world can go to hell.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.