People do forget there is still a lot of nostalgia in Russia for the Soviet Union.

We need to be aware of all different forms of brainwashing and radicalization.

I don't deal with hypotheticals. I deal with reality.

.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens.

Nobody ever kills everybody anywhere, big man. Somebody always gets away.

I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature.

Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.

The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals.

God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate.

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.

I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can