Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

I had a checkered early career, for sure, with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about.

What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the tutelage of this guy I so admired, both as a filmmaker and as a man.

Crossing the Rubicon of absolute pain is the only journey of purpose and meaning in life.

This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach.

Some jobs you do - maybe you don't - are jobs that pay mortgages and some are art and I don't care about not being paid on those.

Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don't take a break.

People whistle me because I am good-looking, rich and a great footballer. They are jealous of me.

Oh yeah, waiting sucks.

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.