People aren't interested in paying $10 or $12 to go to the movies and to be lectured to politically. I'm not either. So I don't try to make those kinds of films.

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films.

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

He could silence me, but Rob had no power over my mind

Before she could ponder what on earth he meant or come up with a proper response, he took their charade a step further.He kissed her.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters.

You must be willing to do things today others won't do, in order to have the things tomorrow others won't have

No eyes can read the future, because it is a book not yet written!

All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.

Europe has resurrected its pagan gods.

We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.

Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.