Politicizing of kids starts with pregnancy, of course. You shouldn't be drinking wine. You can't be smoking, either. The poor woman is poked and prodded and touched and obsessed over.

Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.

When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

Confidence is essential, but ego is not.

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

You think about taking audiences on a journey.

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

When I encourage someone, I see it as an investment in their resilience.

Right where you are, the potential of the universe is.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.

There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.

We can't disrupt polling places anymore, ... It doesn't serve any purpose. It just makes people mad.

Now you shall consider My love in the Blessed Sacrament. Here, I am entirely yours, soul, body and divinity, as your Bridegroom. You know what love demands: one thing only, reciprocity.

You'll often find that people's declared preferences - what they say they want - are far different from their revealed preferences - what they actually do.

What can they suffer that do not fear to die?

I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.