Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store.

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.

A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve taken together would be my standard of a statesman.

Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.

The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke

Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.

Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light.

There's nothing worse than being an aging young person.

Here's to all volunteers, those dedicated people who believe in all work and no pay.

If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.

In this country tonight, PBS shows one of the most talked about tributes of the year.

If all of your electricity in your lifetime came from nuclear [energy], the waste from that lifetime of electricity would go in a Coke can.